The Old Mill Candy Kitchen

The Old Mill Candy Kitchen is a candy shop, not a restaurant, and it is a separate business from the Old Mill Restaurant, Creamery and Pottery House Cafe next door in the same Pigeon Forge complex. You will find it at 177 Old Mill Avenue. The pull is the taffy: the operator says it is made on machines it describes as 100 years old, and the machines are in the storefront window so you can watch it being pulled and wrapped.

The shop's own site names a short list worth knowing before you walk in.

• Bear Paws, the chocolate-and-nut clusters the shop leads with
• Creamy fudge
• Caramel apples, including chocolate-covered apples dipped in crushed peanuts
• Fresh taffy
• Rock candy, sweet cereal bars drizzled with white chocolate, and shelves of old-fashioned sweets
• Seasonal treats that change through the year

Prices are not published, so treat it as a small-treat budget unless you buy by the pound.

As of fall 2026 the shop lists 9 AM to 9 PM, seven days a week. The shop phone is (865) 453-7516. The Old Mill complex has its own number, (877) 653-6455, but that goes to the whole grounds.

The Candy Kitchen works as the end of a meal at the Old Mill Restaurant or the Pottery House Cafe, or as a dessert stop that does not need a table. Because it is open late in the evening, it also fits after a Parkway dinner when the kids want something sweet. Midday on a summer Saturday or during fall color season, the window can have a crowd, so go early or after dinner if you want to watch the taffy machines without elbows.

• Old Mill Creamery: ice cream, with a banana pudding flavor modeled on the restaurant's dessert
• Old Mill Restaurant: breakfast, lunch and dinner, no reservations
• General Store and Pigeon River Pottery: stone-ground grains, gifts, handmade pottery
• The mill itself: billed as America's oldest continually operating gristmill

All of these are within a short walk, so you can put a whole afternoon together without moving the car. Check the Old Mill website for the latest on each shop.

• Buy fudge last so it does not melt in a warm car; the shop's own ice cream neighbor is a better choice on hot afternoons.
• If your next stop is Great Smoky Mountains National Park, remember the parking tag requirement for any stop longer than 15 minutes ($5 daily, $15 weekly, $40 annual, per the National Park Service).
• Bring cash or a card; the shop is a small retail counter, not a sit-down spot.

• Address: 177 Old Mill Avenue, Pigeon Forge, TN 37863
• Phone: (865) 453-7516
• Hours: daily 9 AM to 9 PM