New Book Gives You a Knoxville Bucket List

Meat and threes. Trails and greenways. And a trip inside the world-famous Sunspshere.

There’s so much to do in Knoxville and Kristin Combs wants to help you do it all…before you die.

As the director of communications and social strategies for Visit Knoxville, Combs has spent years helping so many find so many things to do in Knoxville. She’s packaged all that institutional knowledge and a deep love of the city into her new book, ”100 Things to Do In Knoxville Before You Die.”

”Knoxville can’t be defined by just one thing,” reads a statement about the book from its publisher, Reedy Press. “From the incredible outdoors opportunities to a surprisingly diverse food scene to endless ways to experience art in all its forms, Knoxville is a nature-loving-adventure-seeking-artsy-kinda-town!”

Credit: Reedy Press

Here’s a brief list of some of those things to do Combs suggests in her book:

• James White’s Fort

• the Rossini Festival (a Renaissance fair)

•  Knoxville’s Urban Wilderness

• Sample beer in a German castle at Schulz Bräu

• eat shawarma at the “Nicest Place in America”

• Three Rivers Market

• Three Rivers Rambler

• explore the Tennessee River in a car, boat, canoe, or kayak

• appreciate the work of artisans and makers

• hike or paddle Tennessee Pink Marble quarries

• Candoro Marble Building

• eat some barbecue!

• drink some local beers

• a host of things on the University of Tennessee campus

• a football game at Neyland Stadium (of course)

• Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum

• the Dogwood Arts Gallery

• hear buskers in Market Square

If Knoxville is on your list of places to visit, pick up Combs’ new book to help you plan your trip.