Gatlinburg's mini golf is three venues deep, and these seven films cover all of them in depth. Hillbilly Golf leads twice: a family why-guide (4.8 stars across about 4,000 reviews; a two-minute incline lift; the trees screen the height even for the afraid) and a full tour of both mountain-top 18s — windy, cave-shaped obstacles, cheeky signs.

Watch: first looks

3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

Hillbilly Golf Gatlinburg TN | Best Mini Golf In The Smokies?

Adventure Is Out There

Adventure Is Out There plays the A side hole by hole at the course that opened in 1971: the two courses compared, the new Hillbilly Pipe Dream feature, parking strategy, and a family verdict on the best-mini-golf-in-the-Smokies question.

Key takeaways
  • Open since 1971 - a Gatlinburg original
  • The A and B courses compared hole by hole
  • The Hillbilly Pipe Dream is the newest feature

Gatlinburg's MUST-SEE Attraction - Hillbilly Golf!

Brandon’s Travel Guides

Brandon's family guide to the course 300 feet above the Parkway: the two-minute incline lift up (trees all around, kind to height nerves), the two 18-hole courses, and why its roughly 4,000 Google reviews average 4.8 stars.

Key takeaways
  • The incline lift climbs 300 feet in about two minutes
  • Trees screen the lift - kind to height nerves
  • Two 18-hole courses at the top

Must Play ONE OF A KIND Mini Golf Course on the Side of a Mountain!

Brooks Holt

Mini-golf specialist Brooks Holt plays Course B as a family match: the humps, wheels and one-of-a-kind mountainside holes of a course he calls unlike anything else in the game.

Key takeaways
  • Course B played as a family match
  • A mini-golf specialist's course
  • Terraced, mountainside holes unlike anywhere else

Davy Crockett, three years

The Ripley's course at stoplight #1 is filmed in 2025 by a return reviewer ('a little bit of nostalgia'), in 2024 as a cheap date by a local pair (final holes, fairy-tale layout), and in 2023 by a family channel on a spring break trip — three seasons of the same wholesome course, putt by putt, hole-in-one dances included.

The indoor course

Circus Golf's back nine — played in reverse order and completed as the guide's second half — closes the set: blacklight jungle, hot-and-cold impressions, the indoor option for wet days. Its full single review lives on the Circus Golf page in this directory.

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3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

Ripley's Davy Crockett Mini-Golf Full Walkthrough Gatlinburg Tennessee

J & B In The Hills

J & B In The Hills' full walkthrough of BOTH Davy Crockett courses in 2024, the complete orientation film for this page: the courses sit beside the Appy Lodge at stoplight number one as you come into Gatlinburg, with water features, frontier figures and a Pepsi break along the way.

Key takeaways
  • Both 18-hole courses walked in full
  • Beside the Appy Lodge at stoplight number one entering Gatlinburg
  • Water features run through the courses

The BEST mini golf in Gatlinburg? Ripley's Davy Crockett Mini Golf

The Roaming Twins

The Roaming Twins make the case in 2023 that this is the best mini golf in Gatlinburg - their favorite course, full stop - from the raccoon Davy Crockett out front to the bear lounging by a tree on the course. It sits right behind the Appy Lodge at the town entrance.

Key takeaways
  • The creators' pick for best mini golf in Gatlinburg
  • Davy Crockett is portrayed as a raccoon
  • Right behind the Appy Lodge at the town entrance

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

Where they stand

Hillbilly is the hilltop original; Davy Crockett the Parkway classic; Circus the 919 combo's golf half. Each has its own page here.

Sources: the 7 videos on this page, filmed at mini golf courses in Gatlinburg.

Watch: the full set

1 videos · summaries from the actual guides

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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