The 10 Best Things to do Adventurous in Gatlinburg, Tennessee (TN)

Celebrating 23 years touring Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Locally owned & operated since 1998. Recipient of the REI Top Guide Award 2012 & 2017, and the Travel Channel Top choice award. Since 1998, we have taken over 150,000 people into the Smokies on a variety of excursions from easy walks for families and novices, driving tours, private couple's tours, challenging adventures, to backpacking 101 or nights on the famous AT and more. We are the only guide service in the region where all of our guides are professionally trained naturalists, historians, storytellers and educators. As seen on Samantha Brown's Travel Channel Program, National Geographic Globe Trekkers, NBC Nightly News, Turner International, Backpacker Magazine, Endless Vacation, USA Today, AAA magazine Home and Away, National Geographic Adventurer, Outside Magazine, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Shape Magazine, Women's Health, Southern Living, the Chicago Tribune, Indianapolis Star, CNN and more.

CLIMB Works is Gatlinburg's premier family adventure destination. Featuring two world-class zipline tours – our new Mountaintop Zipline tour and our top-rated Treetop Zipline tour. Nestled right across the street from the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, you can explore one of the most beautiful places on earth in two unique and exciting ways.

Adjacent to the Great Smoky National Park, our canopy tour includes 7 ziplines where you sail platform to platform over pristine flora and fauna. Our canopy tour is designed to progress from shorter slower lines to longer, faster, higher lines to keep you comfortable. Experienced and first time participants alike will be thrilled.

Smoky Mountain Guides provides high quality small group adventure tours. We accomplish this by providing interpretive and local guides, that lead Mercedes van tours, hikes, walks, family adventures, backpacking trips and a variety of unique specialty tours. All of our trips and tours are aimed at accomplishing our clients objectives, whether that be: attaining historical insights, seeing panoramic vistas, understanding the natural vegetation or learning a new skill. SMG corporate services division, serves the corporate sector with one of a kind services. This ranges from all-inclusive retreat programming and negotiations, to transportation logistics and even providing high quality team development programming utilizing adventure and experiential learning techniques.

Explore the quiet side of the Smokies in Western North Carolina. Take a guided tour with a retired Smoky Mountain Park Ranger and Naturalist. With over 30 years experience in the Park service, he'll help you explore hidden gems, waterfalls, historic sites, quiet walkways and more. Over 100,000 guests have explored the Smokies. A Walk In The Woods has been offering once in a lifetime driving and hiking tours in the Smoky Mountains since 1998. Emphasizing the teaching of natural history, A Walk In The Woods' offers spectacular trips into the Smokies. Our expert guide will take you on a once in a lifetime Smoky Mountain Tour. Your experience may include incredible vistas, gentle cascades, waterfalls, majestic ancient forests, crystal clear mountain streams, old home sites, or hidden trails!

YOU ARE INVITED TO THE CRAFT MANOR. CAN YOU SURVIVE? The Captured is an interactive live escape game experience. (A game in which guests are locked in a room with other participants and have to use elements of the room to solve a series of puzzles, find clues, and escape) The Captured Live Escape Experience is located directly below the Gatlinburg Space Needle. You have to use your wits, skill and every bit of courage to escape being captured and served as the main course. Chapter One: The Cellar Chapter Two: Scarlett's Room

HeadCase Escape Adventures provides high quality escape experiences. We strive to be the most unique and entertaining adventure in America. Join us for an amazing journey through creative room concepts, compelling technology, and innovative design. Our friendly themed experience guides will take you through adventures that challenge your mind with puzzles and riddles, all while testing your ability to collaborate with others throughout the adventures. The games at HeadCase accommodate almost any age. Book with HeadCase Escape Adventures for a quest you won't forget! Stay a while after before and after your adventure to experience the nicest themed lobby in the industry. Real-Life Escape Adventures!

Experience the Smokies like never before! Feel the nature & see the history as you ride through your beautiful surroundings.

​Solve puzzles, conquer challenges and work together in a 60-minute race against the clock to escape Gatlin's live action Escape Rooms, featuring high-tech props, specialty lighting and sound effects. THE LEGEND OF ATLANTIS: An epic, story-driven journey that puts you in the middle of an Indiana Jones, Hollywood style adventure. MOONSHINE HILL HOOTENANNY: You’ll hafta be crafty to break into Maw’s shack and blow her ‘shine still to smithereens! THE HAUNTING OF THE HYDE HOUSE: Abandoned by your tour guide, you’ll become trapped in the historic Hyde House and discover you are not alone.

Rowdy Bear is home to two amazing rides! The Rowdy Bear Mountain Coaster is a gravity propelled coaster that allows you to zip and zoom through the beautiful Great Smoky Mountains all while operating your very own coaster cart! You control your speeds up to 35mph. The Mountain Glider is the FIRST IN THE WORLD! It is a suspended single railed, dual racing coaster that combines free falling and hang gliding into one fun, safe, & exhilarating experience. This coaster can reach speeds of up to 25mph and offers amazing views of the Great Smoky Mountains while you swing through the treetops! We are open 365 days a year and operate in rain, snow, and sunshine. Free parking. Online ticket purchase available by visiting our website. Visit our Sister Park- Rowdy Bear Ridge @2155 Parkway, Pigeon Forge Home to Tennessee’s First Year Round Outdoor Tubing Hill! 500’ Lanes with a 70’ drop. Ride single or attach up to 3 tubes! Also home to the Worlds First Laser Gun and POWER COASTER!