REVIEW: Wonderworks Pigeon Forge, TN

We were given a couple complimentary passes for review purposes. All opinions are my own.

There are actually several locations for Wonderworks in the US, but this is the first time we have ever visited one. We’ve seen the “upside house,” as my 6 year old calls it, in Branson and Pigeon Forge, but for her birthday, during our recent Spring break trip, we actually got to visit!

We planned to spend the whole day here as there are more than 100 hands on exhibits, as well as rides and other fun things included in the general admission ticket.

Wonderworks caters to a very large audience with a wide range of activities for all ages. My husband and I kind of divided and conquered based on kids interest. While we started together to ride an earthquake ride that simulated a 5.3 magnitude quake, watch water flow backwards and play some sports games, we eventually split up.  Half the family decided to go up! Up the ropes course, that is. The other half stayed planted on the ground while learning about space.

As a homeschool parent, my favorite thing about Wonderworks was that so much of it is science experiments and so we were able to learn while having fun! It was exciting to see my kids conquer some fears and try new things.

It’s really impressive how many fun things your ticket covers. Not only all the fun hands on exhibits, but there is the earthquake ride, a 4D movie, astronaut training (gyroscope), ropes course, wonder coaster, laser tag and 360 bikes (these weren’t available during our visit).

We ended up staying about 4 1/2 hours and still didn’t even do every single thing. It started getting a little busy (hazards of spring break trips everywhere) and so we headed out, but we had had our fill.

My advice for all future visitors would be this: Get there as soon as it opens. You will have a few hours of it being kind of slow before a ton of people show up. Next, go through the first floor and up to the second immediately. Upstairs is laser tag. With your ticket you get unlimited games. The line gets long, so go there first and play several games. Once it starts getting busy and the line grows, head back downstairs to the beginning and start the fun. We didn’t realize laser tag was at the end so when we got there we waited in line for a long time. Once our game was over the line had grown even bigger so we only played once. We would have gone straight there to do that several times in the beginning had we known because that was a couple people’s favorite activity in Wonderworks.

Wonderworks is a really fun place and worth the price of admission, so we recommend it! If you are heading to Pigeon Forge (or any of their other locations) soon, put this on your list of activities!