About Knoxville

It draws people from all over America to Knoxville, Knox County, situated in beautiful East Tennessee adjoining the Great Smoky Mountains where breathtaking panoramas of ridges roll on forever, like an ocean of mountains, and to the mirrored surfaces of TVA's Great Lakes of the South.

Knoxville, in the heart of Tennessee Valley, is in the center of all this. It is an energy center, headquarters of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest public utility.

Knoxville is a learning center, home of the University of Tennessee, which adds dimension and depth to the life of the city...while over 26,000 students keep it young. As the host to the 1982 World's Fair, it is one of the few cities in the world that can call itself a World's Fair City. It is a city with a shoreline where fans come to football games by boat and where suddenly, unexpectedly, around a bend in the lake or at the rise of a hill, the Great Smoky Mountains appear...like magic. And today Knoxville is America's new meeting place. The World's Fair Park is the home of the convention center, modern, spacious, and centrally located.