Inside of Knoxville

Welcome Center Opens at the Sunsphere

Knoxville Urban Guy·November 21, 2024

Yesterday, Visit Knoxville and the City of Knoxville unveiled the new Sunsphere Welcome Center, which continues the evolution of the Knoxville icon. Guests (of which there are many) will now be able to walk up and purchase...

It’s a Small World, Right?

Heather Ryerson·March 28, 2024

What do New York City and San Antonio, TX, have in common? Besides being on Travel & Leisure’s top 15 cities to see in the US for multiple years, I visited them both last month. The Ryerson’s took...

Iconic Sunsphere Getting Much-Needed Makeover

Heather Ryerson·September 7, 2023

Did you know the base of the Sunsphere was originally blue? If you did not, you’re with me and in good company. If you did, you were likely here in 1982, attending the World’s Fair, and...

Sunsphere Spotting

Knoxville Urban Guy·March 15, 2023

(Today’s article is by guest writer Luke Frazier.) I just moved to Knoxville, and I’m really loving it. I live downtown and get to explore cool streets, alleys, and parks whenever I care to. Three days...

New Years Eve Celebration Moves to the Sunsphere (plus a bonus link)

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 30, 2022

For the second consecutive year, the City of Knoxville will host its long-running ball drop from the World’s Fair Park at the Sunsphere tomorrow night. Lowe’s is the primary sponsor for the event centered on the...

Visit Knoxville Celebrates 10 Years of Promoting the City

Knoxville Urban Guy·November 21, 2022

This past Friday, inside the Sunsphere, Visit Knoxville celebrated its tenth anniversary in its current incarnation as the city’s official convention and visitors bureau for the City of Knoxville and Knox County. Over that time it...

East Tennessee Community Design Center Celebrates 50+ Years of Service

Knoxville Urban Guy·August 16, 2022

(Article and photos by guest writer Heather Ryerson) If you are newer to Knoxville like I am, you may not know about the East Tennessee Community Design Center (ETCDC). In 1970, the late Bruce McCarty, came...

The Sunsphere Observation Deck Reopens With a Whole New Look

Knoxville Urban Guy·February 18, 2022

The Sunsphere is doubtless the most distinguishing characteristic of the Knoxville skyline. Along with the blade sign on the front of the Tennessee Theatre, it has to be one of the two most photographed structures in...

Is Knoxville the “Boulder of the East?”

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 26, 2016

I’ve heard about Boulder, Colorado since sometime in the 1970s. In the 1960s it became a gathering point for some members of the counter-culture and I had friends who moved there a few years later. They...

Ice and Snow in the City, February 2015

Knoxville Urban Guy·February 23, 2015

It’s become a tradition for me to walk about in the snow each winter and take photographs of downtown Knoxville. The twist this year was that our initial snow wasn’t a snow at all, but was...

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Sunsphere

Welcome Center Opens at the Sunsphere

It’s a Small World, Right?

Iconic Sunsphere Getting Much-Needed Makeover

Sunsphere Spotting

New Years Eve Celebration Moves to the Sunsphere (plus a bonus link)

Visit Knoxville Celebrates 10 Years of Promoting the City

East Tennessee Community Design Center Celebrates 50+ Years of Service

The Sunsphere Observation Deck Reopens With a Whole New Look

Is Knoxville the “Boulder of the East?”

Ice and Snow in the City, February 2015

Look What’s Returning! (More Than You Might Realize)

Whist Court Getting a Modern Makeover Adding to Development on Magnolia

One Downtown Business Closes and Another is Sold

Mood Ring Vintage Opens Today at 906 Sevier Avenue

Fly By Night Bringing the 70s to South Knoxville