Welcome to the End of the Line

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Large beige Brushy Mountain prison building with barred windows in front of green forested hills under a cloudy sky.

Tour Info

There's only one way in to The End of The Line. Tour available daily. Tickets purchased on-site at the Gift Shop. No reservation required.

Tour Info

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Welcome to the End of the Line

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Tour Info

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Dine with the warden

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Welcome to the End of the Line

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Large beige Brushy Mountain prison building with barred windows in front of green forested hills under a cloudy sky.
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Tours Important Info

Self-guided Tours

New and improved! Self-guided audio-visual experience of the prison and grounds. 25+ stories told by the people who actually lived and worked inside these walls: guards, inmates, and employees of Brushy Mountain. Explore 30+ stations at your own pace.

Group Tours

Bring the crew. Private guided tours are available before regular hours for groups of 15 or more. Experience Brushy without the crowds and save more while you do it. Contact us to book.

paranormal

Standard tours, overnights, public investigations, flashlight tours: Brushy after dark is a different place entirely. These aren't hayrides. These are serious investigations into whatever's still walking these cell blocks.

Make a day of it

A world-famous distillery. Award-winning food. An RV Park and cabins tucked into the mountains. A gift shop where you can get a piece of Brushy to take home with you. Once you're here, you're not going to want to leave.

Events

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Brushy Mountain State Pen Tours

Brushy Mountain was the last place you wanted to find yourself – right in the middle of Tennessee’s first maximum-security prison holding the state’s most violent murderers, robbers and rapists for over a century. With some sentences of 200 years or more, most of the men who walked through its gates would never be walking out. Come see for yourself just what life was like for lost souls at the End of the Line.  

Vintage-style photo of a brick prison building with barred windows and text saying 'Visit Brushy'.
Dimly lit corridor of an old prison with metal bars and large text reading 'Paranormal Tours'.
Interior view of Warden's Table Restaurant with rustic stone walls, wooden tables and chairs, and metal cage partitions and large text reading 'Warden's Table Restaurant'.
Open Year-Round: Parolee's Restaurant & RV Park
Open Year-Round: Parolee's Restaurant & RV Park
Open Year-Round: Parolee's Restaurant & RV Park
Open Year-Round: Parolee's Restaurant & RV Park
Open Year-Round: Parolee's Restaurant & RV Park
Open Year-Round: Parolee's Restaurant & RV Park
Open Year-Round: Parolee's Restaurant & RV Park
Open Year-Round: Parolee's Restaurant & RV Park
Open Year-Round: Parolee's Restaurant & RV Park
Open Year-Round: Parolee's Restaurant & RV Park
Open Year-Round: Parolee's Restaurant & RV Park
Open Year-Round: Parolee's Restaurant & RV Park
Open Year-Round: Parolee's Restaurant & RV Park
Open Year-Round: Parolee's Restaurant & RV Park
Brushy Mountain Distillery logo

Vodka • Whiskey • MoonShine • Liqueur • Bloody Mary Mix

Seven bottles of liquors and mixers arranged on a wooden barrel with a rusted metal backdrop.

Historic Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary

9182 Hwy 116, Petros, TN 37845

Aerial view of prison complex nestled in a valley surrounded by forested hills with some shadows cast on the buildings and landscape.

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Brushy Mtn. State Penitentiary Petros, TN