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Guide to Holston Hills

Where is Hol­ston Hills?

Right off of Asheville High­way and just 5 miles east of Down­town and the Uni­ver­sity of Ten­nessee cam­pus. Hol­ston Hills is eas­ily acces­si­ble by both Asheville High­way and I-40.

Hol­ston Hills Information

Named after the Hol­ston river, which bor­ders the neigh­bor­hood to the south and east, Hol­ston Hills was orig­i­nally devel­oped in the 1920s con­junc­tion with the Hol­ston Hills Coun­try Club. It is home to a Don­ald Ross designed golf course, which many golf afi­ciona­dos con­sider to be the finest golf course in the state of Ten­nessee. The Hol­ston Hills Coun­try Club is still alive and well today, and in addi­tion to golf, fea­tures ten­nis and swimming.

Hol­ston Hills is a great place to live if you like green­ery and archi­tec­tural diver­sity. Built from the 1920s to the 1960s, Hol­ston Hills has an eclec­tic mix of pre-stock crash estate homes, post-crash stone cot­tages, and post-war ranch­ers. Lots tend to be on the large side, and there is no short­age of old, large trees and rolling hills.

If Hol­ston Hills res­i­dents get tired of golf and scenery, they can head a few miles west to the Knoxville Zoo, where more red pan­das have been born than any other zoo in the West­ern Hemi­sphere. The Knoxville Zoo is also home to a wide vari­ety of other ani­mals, from African Ele­phants to East Ten­nessee Black Bears.

Hun­gry Hol­ston Hills res­i­dents who don’t want to hit the coun­try club can head west for some down-home coun­try cookin’ at The Coun­try Table or east for some down-home coun­try and Ital­ian cookin’ at the orig­i­nal Puleo’s Grille off of Straw­berry Plains.

Hol­ston Hills is cur­rently zoned for Sun­nyview Pri­mary School, Chil­howee Inter­me­di­ate School, Carter Mid­dle School, and Carter High School.

You will totally dig Hol­ston Hills if you’re look­ing for:

• a very scenic, yet quite afford­able community
• some­thing close to a coun­try club and golf course
• some­thing with a laid-back vibe that’s a lit­tle off the beaten path
• a home with lots of character
• easy access to Down­town Knoxville or UT

You’ll want to skip Hol­ston Hills if you’re look­ing for:

• a neigh­bor­hood with very flat yards
• new or newer construction
• close prox­im­ity to mall shopping

Images of Hol­ston Hills

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