🍂🍁🎃Dollywood's Harvest Festival Tasting Pass Information + more! 🎃🍂🍁

Hi Everyone,

Dollywood has unveiled the details for their HARVEST FESTIVAL 2025 TASTING PASS.

Running from Friday, September 12, to Monday, October 27, 2025, the event offers plenty of time to experience it all. Let’s dive into what’s in store!  Notice that the park will maintain the same operating hours throughout this festival - 10am to 9:00pm...and they're open every single day!

Here's the link to ''BUY NOW'' - click here to do that, if you wish.  All of this info is found on this page at Dollywood.com - Click Here.

A few tips for the tasting pass....

• You can use all five menu items in one visit, or over several visits.  Just use it before the festival ends on October 27th.
• If you are looking for a lightish date night meal, you may want to split one pass with your bestie and sample different things.  Get creative, you can each get two 'entree' items, and split a dessert treat!

Diamond and Gold Passholders, $39.99 is your discounted price....not including taxes and fees.

Beverages

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Savory Bites

Desserts

SCENES FROM AROUND THE PARK
DURING HARVEST FESTIVAL

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Check out my videos from last year's festival

What are your thoughts on the offerings for the Harvest Festival? Share your opinions in the comments.

🔵Blog Posts and other Helpful Trip Planning information - 

• Dollywood's 2026 Ride - Hidden Hollow Aviation - Updates, Photos, Videos of it Under Construction.
• Getting To Dollywood by Plane
• Hotels with High Ratings in Pigeon Forge.  I have created a spreadsheet that incorporates ratings from different reliable sources and ranked hotels in the area.  I've listed out columns for things like indoor pools, hot tubs and more on the spreadsheet.  Very helpful if you, or someone in your group is looking for a specific amenity.
• Top Breakfast Restaurants in Pigeon Forge.  I have created a list of the best Breakfast restaurants in Pigeon Forge using ratings from various reliable sources and ranked them in my blog post.
  
• 30 Great Places to Eat In Pigeon Forge that are open after 2pm! A list of highly rated establishments that are open past 2pm.
• Guide To Mountain Coasters - A look at all the types of mountain coasters in Sevier County.
• Dollywood's 2025 Operating Calendar +MORE - speculation, guesses on future projects, etc.
• Navigating to Dollywood from North Carolina post-Hurricane Helene.
• 8 Things to do at Dollywood if you don't care for rides - There's a lot to do!
• Pigeon Forge Trolley Info You'll Want to Know!
• Trip Advisors Top 10 Budget Friendly Hotels in Pigeon Forge.
• Tons of YouTube videos - I have so many YouTube videos of Dollywood including every festival and lots of general park updates as well as Big Bear Mountain footage.
• Check out my 2024 End of Year Recap to see all of my Dollywood videos from 2024.
• Check out my 2023 End of Year Recap to see all of my Dollywood videos from 2023.
• Check out my 2022 End of Year Recap to see all of my Dollywood videos from 2022.
• 2024-2025 School Break Calendar - includes Fall, Christmas & Spring Breaks for regional schools.
• Link to Dollywood's TimeSaver Info Page - click Here.

2025-2026 School Calendars for Fall Break, Christmas, Spring Break, and Beginning + End of School Year

Hi Everyone,

Planning a trip to Dollywood? Whether you're just getting started or have already begun, this compiled list of area school systems can help you plan your trip, or give you some indication of when you may want look at different dates - either way, I hope this helps make your visit perfect. 

🔵Compiled Chart 2025-2026 

This handy chart is published by the Pigeon Forge Department of Tourism (pdf).  It lists break dates for the many school systems that frequent Dollywood during their respective Spring & Fall breaks along with dates for Christmas breaks.  It includes the first and last day of school for each school system as well.  Click on the image to make it bigger.

🔵Crowd Calendar

Another helpful Dollywood Trip Planning tool is the Dollywood Crowd Calendar!  It's run by a third party, Queue-times.com, that analyzes ride wait times that Dollywood publishes for their app.

🔷Check out Dollywood's Crowd Calendar here.

🔷An additional cool feature of the Crowd Calendar is that it works at more parks than just Dollywood, so check it out while you're doing your trip planning.

🔷Many people, myself included, will tell you this Crowd Calendar is not perfect.  It can not account for special events and one-off events like the 40th Anniversary of Dollywood for example.  It also can't account for when Dolly will be on park...since that is usually kept private until the last moment for security reasons.  The Calendar is not perfect, but it is still a valuable tool you can use to help plan.

🔵Blog Posts with other Helpful Trip Planning information

• Dollywood's 2026 Ride - Hidden Hollow Aviation - Updates, Photos, Videos of it Under Construction.
• Getting To Dollywood by Plane
• Hotels with High Ratings in Pigeon Forge.  I have created a spreadsheet that incorporates ratings from different reliable sources and ranked hotels in the area.  I've listed out columns for things like indoor pools, hot tubs and more on the spreadsheet.  Very helpful if you, or someone in your group is looking for a specific amenity.
• Top Breakfast Restaurants in Pigeon Forge.  I have created a list of the best Breakfast restaurants in Pigeon Forge using ratings from various reliable sources and ranked them in my blog post.
  
• 30 Great Places to Eat In Pigeon Forge that are open after 2pm! A list of highly rated establishments that are open past 2pm.
• Guide To Mountain Coasters - A look at all the types of mountain coasters in Sevier County.
• Dollywood's 2025 Operating Calendar +MORE - speculation, guesses on future projects, etc.
• Navigating to Dollywood from North Carolina post-Hurricane Helene.
• 8 Things to do at Dollywood if you don't care for rides - There's a lot to do!
• Pigeon Forge Trolley Info You'll Want to Know!
• Trip Advisors Top 10 Budget Friendly Hotels in Pigeon Forge.
• Tons of YouTube videos - I have so many YouTube videos of Dollywood including every festival and lots of general park updates as well as Big Bear Mountain footage.
• Check out my 2024 End of Year Recap to see all of my Dollywood videos from 2024.
• Check out my 2023 End of Year Recap to see all of my Dollywood videos from 2023.
• Check out my 2022 End of Year Recap to see all of my Dollywood videos from 2022.
• 2024-2025 School Break Calendar - includes Fall, Christmas & Spring Breaks for regional schools.
• Link to Dollywood's TimeSaver Info Page - click Here.

Good luck with the planning process and ask any questions you may have in the comments below.  I'll do my best to answer or point you in the right direction.

#Dollywood #DollywoodTripPlanning #PigeonForgeTennessee #TennesseeTourism #vlog #blog #pigeonforgeattractions

🌷🌺Photo Trip Report/Vlogs/Blog - Dollywood's Flower + Food Festival for 2025🌺🌷

Hi Everyone!

This article includes all of my visit to Flower + Food Festival AND A Photo Trip Report that include some of the pics from my visit.  I want to try and include a Photo Trip report in my blog for every visit this season!

Let's start with the videos, and below that the Photo Trip Report!

If they were put the videos in chronological order, they would go this way....

TRIP REPORT PHOTOS FROM PART ONE VIDEO

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UMBRELLA SKY

UMBRELLA TOPIARY

DOLLY'S MOM MAKING THE COAT OF MANY COLORS

RACOON FAMILY TOPIARIES

RACOON

DOLLY'S TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN HOME

'DOLLYWOOD' SIGN UP ON HILLSIDE

TURTLE TOPIARY

TURTLE AND FROG TOPIARIES

BLACK BEAR FAMILY TOPIARIES

DOLLYWOOD EXPRESS PASSING BY

SMOKY MOUNTAIN RIVER RAMPAGE

SMOKY MOUNTAIN RIVER RAMPAGE

SMOKY MOUNTAIN RIVER RAMPAGE

SMOKY MOUNTAIN RIVER RAMPAGE

SMOKY MOUNTAIN RIVER RAMPAGE

SMOKY MOUNTAIN RIVER RAMPAGE

RIDING DOLLYWOOD EXPRESS

RIDING DOLLYWOOD EXPRESS

RIDING DOLLYWOOD EXPRESS -UPPER LOOP

RIDING DOLLYWOOD EXPRESS - WILDWOOD GROVE

RIDING DOLLYWOOD EXPRESS - PROJECT 2026

Link to my Blog Post about "Hidden Hollow Aviation" - Some Guesses and other details!  Click Here.

AKA - 'HIDDEN HOLLOW AVIATION'

RIDING DOLLYWOOD EXPRESS

RIDING DOLLYWOOD EXPRESS - GRIST MILL

NEW SIGN

PULLING INTO THE DEPOT

AWESOME JOB!

#70 CINDERELLA

#70 CINDERELLA

TRIP REPORT PHOTOS FROM PART TWO VIDEO

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SKY OF MANY COLORS - FOR SUMMER FESTIVAL

GRIST MILL

DUCK TOPIARY

WATER WHEEL AND PRETTY LANDSCAPING

PRETTY LANDSCAPING IN C.VALLEY

PORK RINDS

BLACKSMITH SHOP

DAREDEVIL FALLS

DAREDEVIL FALLS

DAREDEVIL FALLS

DAREDEVIL FALLS

DAREDEVIL FALLS

TENNESSEE TORNADO

LOOKING BACK AT 'ADVENTURE MOUNTAIN', WHERE
FIRECHASER NOW SITS

LOOKING BACK AT 'ADVENTURE MOUNTAIN', WHERE
FIRECHASER NOW SITS

LOOKING BACK AT 'ADVENTURE MOUNTAIN', WHERE
FIRECHASER NOW SITS

FIRECHASER EXPRESS

FIRECHASER EXPRESS

NEW WILDERNESS PASS RESTAURANT

NEW WILDERNESS PASS RESTAURANT

NEW WILDERNESS PASS RESTAURANT

PROJECT 2026 - 'HIDDEN HOLLOW AVIATION', AS SEEN FROM WILDWOOD GROVE/BBM.

WILDWOOD CREEK

DUCKS IN THE FOUNTAIN

SHOWSTREET

UMBRELLA SKY W GREAT LIGHTING

NEW TOPIARY

COMMON SNAPPING TURTLE IN RIVERTOWN LAKE

EMPORIUM MERCH

EMPORIUM MERCH

EMPORIUM MERCH

EMPORIUM MERCH

🔵Blog Posts and other Helpful Trip Planning information - 

• Getting To Dollywood by Plane
• Hotels with High Ratings in Pigeon Forge.  I have created a spreadsheet that incorporates ratings from different reliable sources and ranked hotels in the area.  I've listed out columns for things like indoor pools, hot tubs and more on the spreadsheet.  Very helpful if you, or someone in your group is looking for a specific amenity.
• Top Breakfast Restaurants in Pigeon Forge.  I have created a list of the best Breakfast restaurants in Pigeon Forge using ratings from various reliable sources and ranked them in my blog post.
  
• 30 Great Places to Eat In Pigeon Forge that are open after 2pm! A list of highly rated establishments that are open past 2pm.
• Guide To Mountain Coasters - A look at all the types of mountain coasters in Sevier County.
• Dollywood's 2025 Operating Calendar +MORE - speculation, guesses on future projects, etc.
• Navigating to Dollywood from North Carolina post-Hurricane Helene.
• 8 Things to do at Dollywood if you don't care for rides - There's a lot to do!
• Pigeon Forge Trolley Info You'll Want to Know!
• Trip Advisors Top 10 Budget Friendly Hotels in Pigeon Forge.
• Tons of YouTube videos - I have so many YouTube videos of Dollywood including every festival and lots of general park updates as well as Big Bear Mountain footage.
• Check out my 2024 End of Year Recap to see all of my Dollywood videos from 2024.
• Check out my 2023 End of Year Recap to see all of my Dollywood videos from 2023.
• Check out my 2022 End of Year Recap to see all of my Dollywood videos from 2022.
• 2024-2025 School Break Calendar - includes Fall, Christmas & Spring Breaks for regional schools.
• Link to Dollywood's TimeSaver Info Page - click Here.