Pet Boarding in Tennessee

Tennessee is where American music was born and continues to evolve. Nashville is the Country Music capital of the world, but it's also become one of the fastest-growing and most economically dynamic cities in America — a phenomenon that has brought wave after wave of new residents from coastal cities who bring big-city expectations and enormous love for their pets. The city's "it" neighborhoods — East Nashville, 12South, Germantown, the Gulch — have excellent boarding options that feel as polished as the city itself.

Memphis, at the western tip of the state on the Mississippi River, is where the blues came up from the Delta and rock and roll got its swagger from Elvis Presley's Graceland. It's a gritty, musical, deeply soulful city with a boarding market that suits its unpretentious character — solid options at fair prices. Knoxville, near the Tennessee-North Carolina border and the gateway to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, serves a university community (UT Volunteers) and an outdoor tourism economy.

The Smokies are the most visited national park in the country, drawing tens of millions of visitors annually. Boarding facilities around Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, and Sevierville do significant business from tourists who arrive to hike but need somewhere for their pets. Tennessee's four seasons are well-defined: hot, humid summers and generally mild winters with occasional ice storms in the middle and eastern regions. Fall in the Smokies — October especially — is spectacular and extremely busy; book boarding well in advance.