Bays Mountain Park

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Bays Mountain Park & Planetarium
Location Kingsport, Tennessee
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Area 3,550 acres (14.4 km2)
Created 1965
Operated by City of Kingsport
Open Year Around

Bays Mountain Park is a 3,550 acres (14.4 km2) nature park and planetarium located on Bays Mountain in Kingsport, Tennessee, featuring cross-cut viewing sections of beaver dams, bee hives, cave systems, and more.

The park features a nature center and outdoor native animal displays including a bobcat, raptor center, river otters, a waterfowl aviary, wolf pen and free-roaming white-tail deer.[1] Wolf howling sessions are held regularly, where people are allowed to howl with the wolves, spurring the wolves into howling even more.[2] There is also a herpetarium with snakes and amphibians.

The Steadman Heritage Farmstead Museum is a 19th-century period living history farm museum.

One popular activity is called the Barge Ride. This attraction features a ride through the Bays Mountain Reservoir on a pontoon boat while learning about the nature around you. The park also features a freeze-drying laboratory where animals of the region who die of natural causes are preserved for everyone to examine up close.

Other activities include hiking, orienteering, mountain biking, camping and fishing.[3] There is also an adventure course with a zip line.

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