General Info

Located in Kingsport, Tenn., Bays Mountain Park facilities includes more than 3,500-acre of outdoor classroom area, more than 44-acres of lake, a nature center housing exhibits, planetarium, watershed room, library, gift shop and staff offices. It also has a farmstead museum and herpetarium that contains a presentation area and houses live reptiles and amphibian displays. The park is nestled in the northeastern end of the Bays Mountain formation and is a protected haven for wildlife. The park s volunteers trained by park professionals aid in every phase of the park's operation, such as taking small groups of students on nature hikes and teaching grade-level curriculum. Bays Mountain Park also offers various educational programs including general public nature and school field trip nature programs and presentations, such as in-school presentations, home school, general public planetarium and school planetarium presentations.