Knoxville, TN Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Surrounded by the backwoods wilderness of the Great Smoky, the Cumberland and the Blue Ridge mountains, KNOXVILLE , the original capital of Tennessee, is a rather quiet city of 180,000. Modern skyscrapers, older brick buildings and a riverfront at the bottom of steep bluffs combine to give downtown an attractive edge, but specific places of interest are thin on the ground. On the northern fringe, the Old City , centered on Central Street and Jackson Avenue, is a small area of shops, galleries, restaurants and nightspots in Victorian warehouses. On the western edge of downtown, the World's Fair Park is … more »