Free Gatlinburg Scavenger Hunt: For Tourists and Locals

Gatlinburg has so many sights to see, and this free scavenger hunt will lead you to all the best places, local haunts, and have you keeping an eye out for what makes Gatlinburg unique! Below, is our free scavenger hunt, where you can click or tap each item to mark it as complete. And for the planners out there, you can drag and drop rows to change the order in case you want to map out everything in advance.

For a print-and-play instead, click the picture below and you can download and print that.

Gatlinburg Scavenger Hunt

Read further for more information on how to play as well as additional scavenger hunt options we offer.

Scavenger Hunt Checklist for Gatlinburg

ItemPoints
Gatlinburg SkyBridge5
Ole Smoky Moonshine Distillery2
Great Smoky Mountains National Park4
Gatlinburg Space Needle2
Gatlinburg Mountain Coaster1
Sugarlands Distilling Company3
Gatlinburg Arts and Crafts Community2
Anakeesta5
Gatlinburg Strip2
Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies3
Gatlinburg Skylift Park5
Gatlinburg Mountain Mall2
Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum1
Hillbilly Golf5
Ole Red Gatlinburg4
Mysterious Mansion2
Gatlinburg Trolley3
Christ in the Smokies Museum & Gardens5
The Village Shops3
Gatlinburg Space Needle2
Gatlinburg SkyLift Park4
Gatlinburg Arts and Crafts Community2
Anakeesta3
Sugarlands Distilling Company1
Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies3
Ole Red Gatlinburg2
Gatlinburg Mountain Coaster4
Gatlinburg Strip3
Hillbilly Golf5
Gatlinburg Mountain Mall4
Gatlinburg Trolley3
Ole Smoky Moonshine Distillery5

How to Play

For this Gatlinburg scavenger hunt, we’ve come up with a list of things to see in the city. Some of them are popular tourist attractions while others are more local secrets. For each item, you (or your team) will need to take a picture that shows both you and the listed item. For each photo you take, you’ll get the corresponding amount of points listed to the side of that item. 

At the end of the allotted time for the scavenger hunt, you can see what level of rank you’ve earned and whichever team has the most points wins! You’ll be allowed to go to City Hall and ask for a key to the city. (We haven’t actually made any arrangements, but it doesn’t hurt to ask, right?)

Additional considerations for how you play:

  1. We recommend three hours for the scavenger hunt just to have a limit on the time you’re focused on this activity, but that’s up to you.
  2. If you’re traveling as part of a group and don’t want to split up, we’d recommend treating this as a game of I-Spy and awarding points to whoever in the group spots the item first or takes the first photo.
  3. It’s up to you how tough you want to make it with respect to awarding points just for seeing something, or if you have to go inside, or taking it further and requiring even more depending on the location.

Score and Rankings

0-10: Did you even leave your hotel?
11-20: Business trip traveler
21-30: Frequent business trip traveler
31-40: Tourist
41-50: Lives in the next city over
51-60: Over-caffeinated tourist
61-70: Recent transplant
71-80: Local
81-90: Actually grew up here and has always lived here
91-100: Mayor

Think you’re the best ever? Let us know how you did in the comments (and how long it took you) and sign up for our newsletter to be alerted of other scavenger hunts, our challenges designed for only the top finishers, and more.

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