Getting In, Getting Around Knoxville

McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS) is serviced by: American Eagle, Comair, Continental Express, Delta Airlines, Northwest Airlines, United Express, US Airways Express. The following cities are serviced non-stop from Knoxville by air: Atlanta (ATL), Charlotte (CLT), Cincinnati (CVG), Cleveland (CLE), Dallas (DFW), Denver (DEN), Detroit (DTW), Houston (IAH), Memphis (MEM), Minneapolis (MSP), New York (LGA), Newark (EWR), Orlando (MCO), Philadelphia (PHL), Washington (DCA), Washington (IAD).

Southbound Interstate 75 and westbound Interstate 40 converge in the middle of Knoxville via Interstate 275 and run concurrently through western Knoxville. I-75 and I-40 split at the western edge of Knox County.

The Tennessee Rivers run through Knoxville and is accessible by personal watercraft. Many boaters routinely navigate the Tennessee River for both pleasure and travel.

Although parking is usually easy to come by in most of the city, it may be difficult to locate adequate parking in the Downtown area and around the University of Tennessee. One can traverse downtown itself by walking, but most major roads are not amenable to pedestrians or bicyclists. The outer parts of the city are most amenable to private automobiles, as bus service is necessarily thin in the outer sprawl. Many of these neighborhood lack sidewalks, rendering travel by car a real necessity.

Knoxville Area Transit, or KAT runs a bus service throughout the City of Knoxville and parts of Knox County. Unfortunately, most KAT bus stops are served on an hourly interval, so exploring Knoxville via KAT bus is somewhat difficult. All KAT buses are equipped with flip down bicycle racks and many are powered by biodiesel or other alternative fuels. KAT operates special routes for some events, a downtown trolley service, and bus services for the University of Tennessee.

Knoxville Trolley Lines runs several free downtown and University routes during business hours and one "Late Line" route on Friday and Saturday nights during the University of Tennessee fall and spring semesters. Most daytime stops are served on ten to twenty minute intervals.

Knoxville is slowly building out a viable paved greenway system that allows cyclists and pedestrians to travel into downtown from close by suburbs such as Sequoyah Hills and Island Home.