Circus Golf shares 919 Parkway with the Amazing Mirror Maze: 18 holes of glow-in-the-dark mini golf through a circus that never closed — blacklight big tops, animatronic performers, ringmaster figures and holes themed ring by ring. It is Gatlinburg's rain-proof golf, running since the building's maze-and-golf pairing began, and the walkthrough films play the whole card.

Watch: first looks

3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

Circus Golf/Gatlinburg

Hang’n in the hollar

A 2025 round at Circus Golf, played straight after the mirror maze next door: blacklight holes, contested holes-in-one and a score nobody wants to keep. The combo-visit rhythm of the 919 Parkway building in one short film.

Key takeaways
  • Played as the second half of the 919 Parkway combo visit
  • Blacklight course with mirror tricks on the holes

Gatlinburg Tennessee - Things To Do CIRCUS GOLF

Catfish Terry

Catfish Terry brings the family to Circus Golf in 2023 for a blacklight round under the circus big top. (The film is English-narrated, but its only served caption track is an auto-translation, so it loads as watch content.)

CIRCUS GOLF IN GATLINBURG, TN

The DY Family

The DY Family play a full, unhurried round at Circus Golf in 2023 - all the holes, all the kids, and the course's own trickery on camera, including the mirrored holes where the reflections stretch the players to funhouse proportions.

Key takeaways
  • A full 18-hole family round, start to finish
  • Mirrored holes stretch players into funhouse reflections

The course

The 2021 full play-through reads the course hole by hole (eighteen quick reads, honest scoring); the tour films cover the animatronics and the blacklight art, which is the real show — fluorescent murals, glowing obstacles, circus figures mid-act. Skill matters less than the room; the Carpetbagger's visit lands it in the 'kitsch done right' column he reserves for genuine Parkway survivors.

The combo

Most visits buy the building: maze + golf on one ticket ($10 in the 2021 film, $12 by spring 2023, as filmed). The mirror maze is covered on its own page here; taken together they are downtown Gatlinburg's most efficient bad-weather hour.

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3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

Circus Golf in Gatlinburg

CARVER ADVENTURES

Carver Adventures play Circus Golf in 2023 - a blacklight round on the 919 Parkway course. (No usable caption track exists for this film; it loads as watch content.)

Amazing Mirror Maze and Circus Golf in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Circus Animatronics, OH BOY!

Joe & Joy Have Landed

Two sideshow performers review their natural habitat in 2021: Joe & Joy of the Grayson Family Freak Show play Circus Golf and the Amazing Mirror Maze, and inside the maze they catch the trick - the mirrors are double-sided and you can watch other lost visitors through them.

Key takeaways
  • The maze mirrors are double-sided - you can watch other visitors
  • Circus theming runs from the golf course into the maze
  • Reviewed by working sideshow performers

Circus golf and the amazing mirror maze animatronics

Mr Pixie Dust

Mr Pixie Dust plays the blacklight course in 2020 and documents the street-front animatronics that bark for Circus Golf at 919 Parkway - noting, as filmed, that a few of the figures were already broken and the manager blamed the kids. (No usable caption track exists for this film; it loads as watch content.)

Pace note

Indoor, air-conditioned, self-paced — the films recommend it as the midday or rain break in a Parkway day built mostly of queues and heat.

Sources: the 9 videos on this page, filmed at Circus Golf, 919 Parkway, Gatlinburg.

Watch: the full set

3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

Circus Golf in Blacklight 3D-Gatlinburg, TN

Where the Sunshines

Where the Sunshines, a mini-golf channel, give Circus Golf the full review treatment in 2019: the venue's own description quoted ('special effects black light golf meets circus fun house'), the rules, the animatronics and animations hole by hole - and a $5 Shoot-'Em-Up Cinema coupon hiding on the scorecard.

Key takeaways
  • Billed as special-effects blacklight golf meets a circus fun house
  • A $5 Shoot-'Em-Up Cinema coupon hides on the scorecard
  • Animatronics and animations run throughout the course

Circus Blacklight Mini-Golf, Gatlinburg,TN

Never Too Late

Never Too Late's 2018 family round in the glow: holes-in-one claimed early and often, and a tour of the figures suspended over the course - escape artist, zombie elephant and all - in the course's early blacklight years.

Key takeaways
  • Figures hang over the course - escape artist, zombie elephant
  • An early (2018) look at the blacklight course

Blindshot Barnaby’s Circus Golf

The Carpetbagger

The Carpetbagger comes for Blindshot Barnaby in 2018: the talking sideshow figures out front are the draw, and inside he catalogues the lineup - the giant gorilla, the world's tallest person, the monkey boy, the bearded baby and the Invisible Man - between putts.

Key takeaways
  • The talking sideshow figures out front are the street draw
  • Inside lineup: gorilla, world's tallest person, monkey boy, bearded baby
  • Named for its animatronic barker, Blindshot Barnaby

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