The 7 Most Scary Things to Do in Gatlinburg

If you love a good scare, Gatlinburg has enough ghostly goings-on to keep you happily haunted. Try these spine-tingling attractions!

1. Ghost Walk of Gatlinburg

This tour weaves ghoulish stories from the city’s history as you walk to spooky sites, including a 200-year-old cemetery. Beware the beautiful ghost who wants to lure the living to self-destruction. Hear tales of hotels still home to those murdered there. Your guides are expert storytellers skilled at sending shivers up your back.

2. Ripley’s Haunted Adventure

Welcome to an unforgettable lock-in. Your hosts are the undead. Your mission is to try to get out unscathed! Shudder your way through room after room of scares and surprises, with live actors keeping you on your toes at every terrifying turn.

3. Outbreak: Dread the Undead

Think you can outwit zombies in a contaminated laboratory? Or will you end up a zombie yourself? This escape game combines haunted house thrills with a challenge: Emerge alive. Smell the chemicals, hear the dreaded zombies approaching, and find your way out.

4. Mysterious Mansion

Meet the Mansion’s “rotting residents.” Watch out behind you! You’re weaving through an authentically decorated Victorian house of horrors. Slip down hidden passages and climb spooky staircases, never knowing what terrifying sights lie through the next doorway.

5. Gatlinburg GhostWalk

Steel your nerves! On this walking tour, you might encounter the long-dead actress who still haunts a popular destination. Maybe you’ll meet spectral settlers lingering along old frontier trails. Hear ghost stories, Cherokee legends, and tales of moonshiners. Choose a night tour by lamplight–if you dare.

6. Haunted Cabin: Trapped Escape Game

Trapped is an escape room adventure in Pigeon Forge offering five games including Haunted Cabin. Old man Ramsey is long dead, but legend says he hid a fortune and his treasured moonshine recipe in his cabin. Find the money and the recipe–if Ramsey’s angry ghost doesn’t stop your thieving first! Can you solve the clues before he returns?

7. Explore Haunted History

Create your own supernatural tour. Gatlinburg’s Greenbriar Restaurant is home to a spirit bride who took her own life here after being jilted. Can guests really hear her wails? Take a drive on Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail. Look for Lucy, who wanders the trail looking for a ride to her cabin, though she’s been dead for over a century.

When you return to your Gatlinburg cabin rental, don’t worry. We have a ghost-free guarantee!