Parrot Mountain and Gardens is a tropical-feeling mountaintop of exotic birds above Pigeon Forge — the big-sign attraction visible from Dollywood's exit road that Adventure Is Out There passed for years before finally visiting, at the top of this page, for the full tour: the lorikeet aviary where the birds swarm for nectar, parrots perched on shoulders for photos, and the baby-bird nursery. Yankee in the South call it their favorite Pigeon Forge attraction outright, across three separate visits filmed here.

Watch: first looks

3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

Parrot Mountain Pigeon Forge Full Tour | Exotic & Baby Birds!

Adventure Is Out There's long-awaited full tour of Parrot Mountain: the lorikeet aviary where the birds swarm for nectar, parrots perched on shoulders for photos, the baby-bird nursery and the gardens — the Parkway attraction they pass every time they leave Dollywood, finally visited.

Key takeaways
  • Lorikeet nectar feeding is the signature encounter
  • Photo parrots and a baby-bird nursery round out the visit
  • It's the big-sign attraction visible from Dollywood's exit road

Parrot Mountain Pigeon Forge Tennessee 2022 What's New Our Favorite Attraction

Yankee in the South's 2022 return to their self-declared favorite Pigeon Forge attraction, with entrance-drive and parking advice from the steep lot. Filmed and narrated in English; only a Dutch auto-translated caption track was available, so it is cataloged here as watch content.

Parrot Mountain Complete Walkthrough and Review Pigeon Forge Tennessee What's New

Yankee in the South's complete walkthrough and review stresses the setting — a tropical-feeling mountaintop above Pigeon Forge — and the honest warning that everything sits on an incline, which matters for visitors with mobility limits, before feeding time in the lory aviary.

Key takeaways
  • Everything is built on an incline — a real mobility warning
  • The lory aviary feeding is the crowd moment
  • A top-recommended stop from repeat local visitors

The encounters

The lory aviary feeding is the crowd moment in every film. The roster runs to talking African greys, dancing cockatoos and telephone-mimicking mynahs — with the standing warning delivered on camera by The Carpetbagger: the birds are beautiful, and they will bite. Smoky Mountain Family frame their visit as a conquest — a host traumatized by pigeons, cranes and one head-climbing parrot faces the lorikeets and the big macaws anyway.

The honest warnings

Two, and both matter. The access drive is notoriously steep. And everything on the mountain is built on an incline, which the complete walkthrough stresses for visitors with mobility limits before it says anything else. Plan for both and the place is exactly what its repeat visitors say it is.

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3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

Parrot Mountain and Gardens Pigeon Forge Tennessee Review 2019

Yankee in the South's first filmed visit, from 2019: talking parrots with attitudes, new enclosures under construction, and the close-up bird encounters that made the place a repeat favorite.

Key takeaways
  • The birds talk back — plan time for the talkers
  • New enclosures were already going up in 2019
  • First filmed visit of a many-times favorite

Parrot Mountain - Pigeon Forge, TN

The Carpetbagger climbs the notoriously steep drive to Parrot Mountain for the African greys, dancing cockatoos and telephone-mimicking mynahs, with the standing warning delivered on camera: the birds are beautiful, and they will bite.

Key takeaways
  • The access drive is notoriously steep
  • African greys headline the smart-bird roster
  • On-camera rule: the birds will bite — fingers beware

PARROT MOUNTAIN AND GARDENS Pigeon Forge Tennessee SUGGESTION WEEK DAY 5

Smoky Mountain Family's suggestion-week visit is framed as a conquest: Keegan, traumatized by pigeons, cranes and one head-climbing parrot in years past, faces the lorikeets and the big macaws to conquer her fear of birds.

Key takeaways
  • The visit is framed as conquering a fear of birds
  • A parrot once climbed onto the host's head — she faces it anyway
  • Lorikeets and macaws are the test

The first visit, 2017

The Carpetbagger's first-ever trip, with Adam the Woo along, calls it a premier religious parrot attraction — birds everywhere, including a little bird church, and more squawking than the microphone can sort out. Nine years of films on this page agree with the verdict, if not the volume.

Sources: the 7 videos on this page, filmed at Parrot Mountain and Gardens in Pigeon Forge between 2017 and 2026.

Watch: the full set

1 videos · summaries from the actual guides

Parrot Mountain - Bird Filled Wonderland

The Carpetbagger's first-ever Parrot Mountain visit (2017), with Adam the Woo along: a self-described premier religious parrot attraction, birds everywhere including a little bird church, and more squawking than the microphone can sort out.

Key takeaways
  • Billed by the host as a premier religious parrot attraction
  • Birds roam everywhere — including a little bird church
  • Filmed on the host's first-ever visit, with Adam the Woo

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