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TVA Turns 90
Join us in celebrating TVA's 90th anniversary in 2023! This summer, we're offering the opportunity to tour several of our monumental dams. You can also catch our road show at various community events and read Heritage articles and other historic content.
Dam Tours
This summer, TVA is offering public tours of some of our dams, allowing you to see inner workings of a dam and learn how we produce clean hydropower while ensuring the health of the waterways.
- Each tour will be limited to 20 people.
- Tours will be offered twice a day, at 10:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. local time. Each tour lasts 60-90 minutes.
- Since demand is very high, we will use a random drawing to select from the pool of registrants. You will be notified by email indicating whether or not you were selected. Registering does NOT guarantee a space on the tour. Please do not register unless you are sure you can make the tour (we understand that emergencies may arise).
- Please do not register if you are a current TVA employee.
- See below for the registration timeframes. A link will be available on this page when registration is open.
Note: Because Raccoon Mountain is undergoing an outage, visitors will not be allowed on the generator floor. You will be able to ride the elevator down into the mountain and view the inside of the facility from the overlook.
June Tours
June 2 – Kentucky Dam (Google directions)
June 9 – Kentucky Dam (Google directions)
June 23 – Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant (Google directions – meet at the Administration building)
| Registration Opens | Registration Closes | Email Notification |
| May 8, 2023 | May 21, 2023 | May 26, 2023 |
Registration is closed for the June tours.
July Tours
July 7 – Norris Dam (Google directions)
July 14 – Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant (Google directions – meet at the Administration building)
July 21 – Chickamauga Dam (Google directions)
July 28 – Fontana Dam (Google directions)
| Registration Opens | Registration Closes | Email Notification |
| June 12, 2023 | June 25, 2023 | June 30, 2023 |
August & September Tours
August 4 – Wilson Dam (Google directions)
August 11 – Norris Dam (Google directions)
August 18 – Wilson Dam (Google directions)
August 25 – Chickamauga Dam (Google directions)
September 8 – Pickwick Landing Dam (Google directions)
| Registration Opens | Registration Closes | Email Notification |
| July 10, 2023 | July 23, 2023 | July 28, 2023 |
Traveling Road Show
We’re on the move and want to see you! Drop by and visit with us this summer as we participate in fun festivals across the Tennessee Valley region. We’ll be looking for you!
World's Biggest Fish Fry
April 24-29, 2023
Paris, Tenn.
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Panoply Arts Festival
April 28-30, 2023
Huntsville, Ala.
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Memphis in May
May 5-7, 2023
Memphis, Tenn.
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Riverbend Festival
June 2-4, 2023
Chattanooga, Tenn.
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HydroFest
June 24-25, 2023
Guntersville, Ala.
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W.C. Handy Music Festival
July 21-30, 2023
Muscle Shoals, Ala.
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Tennessee State Fair
August 17-26, 2023
Lebanon, Tenn.
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Meet the Mountains Festival
August 18-19, 2023
Johnson City, Tenn.
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Asian Festival
August 25-26, 2023
Knoxville, Tenn.
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Prairie Arts Festival
September 2, 2023
West Point, Miss.
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Bowling Green International
September 30, 2023
Bowling Green, Ky.
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Day of Service
On May 18, TVA celebrated its 90th anniversary by participating in the largest day of service in our history. More than 2,000 employees and 125 retirees fanned out to volunteer in all 201 counties of our seven-state service area. In all, they logged 10,000 service hours.
Read a recap of this historic day.
From the White House
For our 90th anniversary, President Biden offered his congratulations to TVA for returning hope, opportunity, and dignity to the region and helping make the Tennessee Valley region the great community it is today.
TVA Heritage
These in-depth columns tell the story of TVA through the people and events that shaped its history—and indeed life in the Tennessee Valley as we know it today. Read about the vision, conflicts, personal and political struggles that made TVA great.
Celebrate TVA Dams
The Unified Development of the Tennessee River plan stressed TVA was to provide flood control, navigation and electricity for the region. TVA’s dams are tangible evidence of its primary mission: improving life in the Tennessee Valley. We’re celebrating the plan with an in-depth look at 32 of the dams it comprises.
Virtual Tours Inside Our Dams!
Go behind the scenes to see how some of our most celebrated dams work and discover the unexpected beauty deep within.
Kentucky Dam
Take a virtual tour of
TVA's longest dam—a muscular powerhouse that connects the Tennessee River to the National Inland Waterway.
Fontana Dam
TVA's tallest dam was built in a hurry to help power the industries that would help win WWII. Read and watch for more.
Guntersville Dam
This southernmost dam in the TVA system is a hidden art deco gem. Take a virtual tour.
Norris Dam
TVA's very first dam, constructed in 1933. Take a virtual tour.
Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant
In TVA’s largest hydroelectric facility, water is pumped to the reservoir on top of the mountain and then used to generate electricity when additional power is needed. Take a virtual tour.
Wilson Dam
Built for WWI, but the war ended before it could spin up its turbines. The dam gained new purpose with the founding of TVA. Take a virtual tour.