Event Category: Dog Events
Daytime Dog Visits with Santa
Halloween Pooch Party
Dress your best four-legged friend in style!
Bring your pup to an event designed especially for them. Enter our costume contests, browse the dog-friendly vendors, and delight your furry friend with special treats.
This year’s special costume category is “Founding Paw-thers,” so bring your pooch dressed as an American Icon to celebrate America’s 250th. Costume Contests start at 11 AM & 2 PM each day.
Costume Award Categories:
- Best Kid & Canine Combo
- Adult & Dog Duo
- Best Founding Paw-ther
- Top Dog
Dogs must be on a leash at all times. Dogs are not allowed inside any buildings. Owners are responsible for and must clean up after their pups.
We will have water refill and doggie bag stations throughout the property. Please BYOBowl to fill and refill with water for your dog.
Saturday
Food Vendors
King of Pops
Moosic City Ice Cream
Daddy’s Dogs
Perenn at Cheekwood Café
Dog Vendors
Cheekwood Gift Show
Pet Musings
Weenie Wraps
Unleashed Impact
Dog Bandana Co.
Misty Westebbe Photography
RARE Rescue
Home Run Pet Care
LoveMe Art – PawArtist Experience
Sunday
Food Vendors
Pie Town Tacos
Eat Bubbles
Wyldeflour Pizza
Roadhouse Grille
The Grilled Cheeserie
The Pink Truck and Parlour
Perenn at Cheekwood Café
Dog Vendors
Cheekwood Gift Show
Pet Musings
Weenie Wraps
Unleashed Impact
Dog Bandana Co.
Sniff the Cook
Misty Westebbe Photography
Proverbs 12:10 Rescue
Home Run Pet Care
LoveMe Art – PawArtist Experience
Perenn at Cheekwood
Saturday & Sunday | 9 AM – 4:30 PM
All‑day café and bakery located in the Frist Learning Center courtyard. Full menu service stops at 4 PM and transitions to grab-and-go items until 4:30 PM
Bring Your Own Bowl
We will have water refill and doggie bag stations on the property. Please BYOBowl to fill and refill with water for your dog.
If you don’t have a collapsible bowl and want something that’s easy to carry around, try making one out of materials you could already have at home. Like this one from a dog food bag or this one from a cereal box and bag.
For more information on why we no longer provide communal bowls, check out this article from the AKC and this article from Preventative Vet.
Please keep all pet friends on leash at Cheekwood and do not bring them into any of the buildings.
Reserve Tickets
| Gardens Only | Gardens + Mansion | Off-Site Parking Gardens + Mansion | |
| Adults | $24 | $29 | $19 |
| Youth (3-17) | $17 | $22 | $12 |
| Ages 2 & Under | FREE | FREE | FREE |
| Member Adult | $14 | $16 | $9 |
| Member Youth | $12 | $14 | $7 |
A $2 service fee will be added to all paid transactions.
Save with off-site parking!
Off-Site Parking
National Dog Day
Bring Your Own Bowl
We will have water refill and doggie bag stations on the property. Please BYOBowl to fill and refill with water for your dog.
If you don’t have a collapsible bowl and want something that’s easy to carry around, try making one out of materials you could already have at home. Like this one from a dog food bag or this one from a cereal box and bag.
For more information on why we no longer provide communal bowls, check out this article from the AKC and this article from Preventative Vet.
Please keep all pet friends on leash at Cheekwood and do not bring them into any of the buildings.
Dogs & Dogwoods 2023
Celebrate the blooming of Cheekwood’s nationally certified dogwood collection with your best four-legged friend! Cheekwood’s spring dog-friendly weekend will feature food trucks, local vendors, special performances, and more.
Please keep all pet friends on leash at Cheekwood and do not bring them into any of the buildings.
We will have water refill and doggie bag stations on the property. Please BYOBowl to fill and refill with water for your dog. If you don’t have a collapsible bowl and want something that’s easy to carry around, try making one out of materials you could already have at home. Like this one from a dog food bag or this one from a cereal box and bag.
For more information on why we no longer provide communal bowls, check out this article from the AKC and this article from Preventative Vet.
Schedule of Events
Saturday
10 AM – 12 PM | Children’s Garden | TOTS! activities
12 – 3 PM | Beer Garden | Cristina Vane
9 AM – 4 PM | Café 29
9 AM – 4:30 PM | Beer Garden & Lot B | Food Trucks
- Music City Fish & Chicken
- Bag Lady’s
- Gypsy Crepe
- Tennessee Tater Cakes
- King of Pops
- Bradley’s Creamery
- Hoss’ Loaded Burgers
9 AM – 4:30 PM | Lot B | Dog Vendors
- Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary
- Metro Animal Care & Control
- Weenie Wraps
- Wendy Jo Photo
- Dog Bandana Co.
- Doggie Doodles by Dina
- Pet Musings
- Proverbs 12:10
- SOAR Rescue
- The Village Unleashed
- Movement Lounge
- Spotted Dog Bakery
Sunday
12 – 3 PM | Beer Garden | Les Sabler Quartet
9 AM – 4 PM | Café 29
9 AM – 4:30 PM | Beer Garden & Lot B | Food Trucks
- Moosic City
- Yayo’s OMG
- Daddy’s Dogs
- Livvi’s Lunchbox
- Cousins Maine Lobster
- Simeon Chicken Enchiladas
- The Rolling Recipe
9 AM – 4:30 PM | Lot B| Dog Vendors
- Weenie Wraps
- Wendy Jo Photo
- Dog Bandana Co.
- Doggie Doodles by Dina
- Pet Musings
- Proverbs 12:10
- SOAR Rescue
- The Village Unleashed
- Movement Lounge
Get Tickets
| Gardens Only | Gardens + Mansion | |
| Adults | $24 | $29 |
| Youth (3-17) | $17 | $22 |
| Ages 2 & Under | FREE | FREE |
| Members Adult | $14 | $16 |
| Members Youth | $12 | $14 |
$2 service fee on each ticket; $5 parking fee for Non-Members