Top Piney Flats Venues

• Spaces for 30 Guests

Looking for the perfect outdoor, small event venue for your next birthday party, family reunion, or just somewhere to watch the big game? Achieve the perfect do-it-yourself event at Doe River Landing’s Water’s Edge Pavilion. At the Water’s Edge Pavilion, we provide the location, activities, amenities, and accommodations, so you can focus on what matters - making memories. Doe River Landing is in beautiful Roan Mountain, Tennessee, and can accommodate 30 guests. The venue offers climate control, a fireplace, picnic tables and seating, a fully equipped kitchen, flat screen TV, bathhouse, playground, river access, and more. Need accommodations for your group? Choose between 1, 2, and 3 bedroom cabins, RV parking, or an on-site Camper.

• Spaces for 100-150 Guests
• 1 Outdoor
• 2 Historic Spaces
• 1 Meeting Space

Tipton-Haynes State Historic Site sits on 17 acres in Johnson City, Tennessee, anchored by 11 historic buildings, a cave, and an active spring pond. The property was acquired by the State of Tennessee in 1944, restored by the nonprofit Tipton-Haynes Historical Association between 1965 and 1970, and opened to the public for tours in 1971 — giving the grounds a layered, lived-in history that shows up in every corner of the site. That history makes for a distinctive backdrop for weddings, rehearsal dinners, showers, and photo sessions, with the picturesque buildings, cave, and pond offering a different scene for every season. The outdoor grounds seat more than 150 guests with reclaimed picnic tables, including handicap-accessible seating, while the Visitor Center Conference Room holds up to 100 guests with tables and chairs included, along with a projector and screen for presentations, meetings, and retreats. Brides can prepare in the Library, a private room with its own bathroom and mirrors, while the Cabin serves as a getting-ready space for the groom's party. A recently completed communal kitchen — stocked with commercial-grade appliances including a three-bay sink, ice machine, and high-temp dishwasher — is available to rentals, and outside catering is welcome throughout the site.

• Spaces for 35-250 Guests
• 1 Event Space
• 2 Historic Spaces
• 1 Meeting Space

The McKinney Center occupies a renovated 1940 schoolhouse in Jonesborough, Tennessee that served as the town's Black grade school until integration in 1964. Operated through Jonesborough's Mary B. Martin Program for the Arts, the center preserves the building's history from the Booker T. Washington School while running it today as a multicultural arts education hub and community gathering space. The center's auditorium and classroom spaces are available for rent for weddings, receptions, anniversary parties, reunions, corporate dinners, awards ceremonies, meetings, and seminars. A 2012 renovation brought the facility modern conveniences — Wi-Fi, accessible restrooms, and a catering kitchen — while retaining its vintage character, including a stage, wood floors, and tall schoolhouse windows. Rental fees include tables, chairs, and set-up and breakdown, giving planners a straightforward path from booking to event day at a venue that doubles as a piece of local heritage.

• Spaces for 95-200 Guests
• 1 Theater
• 1 Historic Space

The International Storytelling Center sits along Main Street in Jonesborough, Tennessee's oldest town, where the National Storytelling Festival first gathered in 1973 in what's recognized as the first event of its kind anywhere in the world. That legacy carries into the Center's event spaces today, set within the 14,000-square-foot Mary B. Martin Storytelling Hall and its surrounding grounds, nestled in the Appalachian Mountains among tree-lined streets and traditional brick sidewalks. The Center's campus offers a range of settings for weddings, retreats, meetings, and conferences, including the second-floor Sara Keys Parlor with its balcony overlooking downtown, the brick-lined Courtyard and Plaza for receptions and parties, the light-filled Library for meetings and small gatherings, a three-acre park with walking trails and gardens for outdoor ceremonies, and a 95-seat theater for performances and lectures. Event rentals come with amenities including table rental, a catering kitchen, free Wi-Fi, a projector and sound system, and a bridal suite option based on availability, all within walking distance of Jonesborough's historic lodging and Main Street shops.

• Spaces for 200-230 Guests
• 1 Event Space
• 1 Historic Space

Crooked River is a 200-plus-acre estate in Hiltons, Virginia, combining rolling farmland with valley and mountain views. The property is built around a circa-1823 grist mill, now the estate's main reception space, where 17-foot doors flanked by old-world stonework, chandeliers, and a towering stone fireplace give the room an Old World, European-countryside character. Large windows frame the surrounding mountains, and the space is climate-controlled with both indoor and outdoor fireplaces and a fire pit, seating up to 200 guests. Couples getting ready can use the Tobacco Barn, a converted cottage with a bridal suite on the upper floor and a groom's lounge below, along with a full kitchen, bar, and outdoor gathering areas. Outdoors, the estate offers three to four distinct ceremony locations, including the Seventh Shoal along the river and a tree-lined spot known as the Grove, giving couples a choice of natural backdrops for their vows before moving guests into the Grist Mill for the reception. Crooked River books a limited number of weddings and offers single-day, two-day rehearsal-retreat, and fully customizable all-inclusive packages, with parking and shuttle service between the ceremony sites and reception venue included.

• Spaces for 250 Guests

The Martha Washington Inn & Spa is a historic hotel in downtown Abingdon, Virginia, built in 1832 as the private residence of General Francis Preston and his family. The original brick residence still forms the central structure of the hotel, and the Preston family's living room is now its main lobby. From 1858 to 1932 the building operated as Martha Washington College, a women's college known locally as "The Martha," before reopening as a hotel in 1935. The property sits across from the Barter Theatre, the longest-running professional resident theatre in America. Today the Martha Washington Inn & Spa offers 63 guest rooms decorated with antiques and modern amenities, along with a spa and fitness center. Its ballroom provides a setting for weddings and special events, with indoor and outdoor options and all food and beverage catered in-house by the hotel's team. The hotel also hosts meetings and conferences, with flexible meeting space, high-speed internet, A/V and surround-sound capability, and on-site accommodations for multi-day corporate stays. Guests can also spend time at the property's pool, tennis and pickleball courts, and mini golf course, or bike the nearby Virginia Creeper Trail.

• Spaces for 300 Guests

The Lodges at Eagles Nest spans 3,000 acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Banner Elk, North Carolina, with elevations reaching above 4,500 feet. At the heart of the community, the Great Camp functions as the social and event hub, anchored by an outdoor amphitheater with a dance floor and a covered barbecue pavilion equipped with a bar area, fireplace, and HD television. Throughout the property, additional gathering spaces include the Eagles Nest Winery, the Epic Chophouse — a fine dining restaurant perched at 4,300 feet with panoramic mountain views — and a Cigar & Wine Bar. From Memorial Day through Halloween, the Great Camp hosts a regular concert series with live bands and community events, including an annual Music Fest and a Fourth of July celebration. The mountain setting, at the edge of North Carolina's High Country, provides a distinctive backdrop for weddings, outdoor receptions, and private celebrations across all four seasons.

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• Spaces for 240-4,300 Guests
• 3 Ballrooms
• 4 Resorts
• 1 Convention Center

MeadowView Conference Resort & Convention Center sits in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Kingsport, Tennessee, with an 18-hole golf course at the foot of Bays Mountain and mountain views from many of its 301 renovated guest rooms and suites. The resort offers more than 81,000 square feet of event space, anchored by three ballrooms - including the Cattails Ballroom, which holds up to 500 guests beneath high ceilings and chandeliers, and the Grand Ballroom, its largest room. Couples planning a wedding can exchange vows against the mountain backdrop or on the golf course, with a complimentary indoor space held in reserve in case of weather, and can celebrate an intimate gathering in the property's wine cellar. Marriott Certified Wedding Planners on staff are trained to coordinate ethnic and military weddings alongside traditional ceremonies. In-house catering and dedicated event planners support everything from bridal showers and rehearsal dinners to receptions and post-wedding brunches, and The Meadows Restaurant serves American fare, including a seafood buffet, with mountain views.

• Spaces for 100-150 Guests
• 1 Outdoor
• 1 Meeting Space
• 2 Parks

Roan Mountain State Park sits along the Doe River in the Highlands of Roan, with mountaintop views, hiking and mountain bike trails, and access to the Appalachian Trail via Carver's Gap. In early summer, the park's rhododendron shrubs come into bloom, adding color to the surrounding wooded landscape. For gatherings and celebrations, the park offers a mix of indoor and outdoor venues. The Conference Center provides an indoor space for up to 150 guests, with a catering kitchen, a large stone fireplace, and mountain views, and can be rented as one large room or split into two private conference rooms. Outdoors, the Amphitheater seats up to 100 guests amid wooded surroundings, three pavilions accommodate smaller gatherings of 30 to 100 with picnic tables and grills, and the Chestnut Ridge Overlook offers sweeping views of the Highlands for a more intimate setting. Guests can extend their stay in one of the park's thirty two-bedroom, one-bath cabins, or in its RV and tent camping areas.