South Knoxville (SoKno)

What it’s like

Outdoor-oriented with an extensive trail network, a growing neighborhood dining scene, and river access.

Highlights

• Knoxville Urban Wilderness (trails & greenways)
• Sevier Avenue dining
• Short trip to downtown over the river

Getting to know South Knoxville (SoKno)

South Knoxville’s calling card is the Urban Wilderness — more than a thousand acres of connected parks, nature areas and former quarries laced with roughly fifty miles of trail, all inside the city limits. Ijams Nature Center, Baker Creek Preserve’s mountain-bike trails and the Mead’s Quarry swimming and paddling area are the headliners, and the network keeps growing.

That outdoor identity has pulled a neighborhood district up with it: Sevier Avenue, just over the river from downtown, now carries breweries, restaurants and shops in a walkable strip serving the surrounding streets of bungalows and cottages. Downtown is minutes away across the Gay Street or Henley Street bridges, which makes SoKno one of the shortest outdoors-to-office commutes anywhere in the region.

Getting around

Chapman Highway is the main spine; the Gay Street/Henley bridges connect to downtown in minutes.

Nearby commercial corridors: Chapman Highway · Sevier Avenue

Official local sources — South Knoxville (SoKno)

Public, official links so you can research the facts yourself — we point at the sources rather than editorializing the data.

• Ijams Nature Center — the Urban Wilderness’ 300-acre hub
• Outdoor Knoxville — greenways, trails and outdoor programs
• City of Knoxville — Parks & Recreation — city parks, community centers and programs
• Knox County Schools — official district site — look up zoned schools for any address
• KGIS Maps (Knoxville–Knox County GIS) — parcels, zoning, flood layers and aerial maps for any property