Car rentals for Maryville. Book the car you want.

Choose Maryville pickup or contactless delivery at McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS). Review the pickup instructions for your confirmed booking before traveling.

There is no separate charge for TYS delivery. Customer responsible for airport parking fee upon exit, typically no more than $13 Do not travel to a city-center rental counter; use the pickup point and instructions in your confirmed trip.

If you're not flying in, Maryville pickup is simpler than going to the airport. No airport navigation. You drive to the pickup location in Maryville, open the lockbox on the car, and drive. The pickup process is identical: same lockbox system, same code in your booking emails.

The Maryville location is also meaningfully closer to the roads most renters are here for. Tail of the Dragon's access road (US-321 to Deals Gap) starts from Maryville. Cades Cove is 35 minutes from our Maryville location compared to 80 minutes from TYS. If your trip is Smokies-focused, Maryville is the logical starting point.

For Blount County residents (Maryville, Alcoa, Rockford, Louisville), this is the home-market pickup. No airport overhead, no tourism district pricing. The car is in Maryville and you pick it up like any normal rental.

Maryville sits at the geographic center of everything Drive865's fleet is built for. Fifteen minutes south is Townsend, the quiet gateway to the Smokies that avoids the Pigeon Forge tourist strip. Twenty minutes further is Cades Cove. Fifty-five minutes southwest is Deals Gap and Tail of the Dragon. Sixty minutes further southwest is the Cherohala Skyway entrance in Tellico Plains.

For a multi-day trip (say, two or three nights in the area), a Maryville pickup makes the logistics simple: pick up the car in Maryville, drive the Dragon on day one, Cades Cove and Foothills Parkway on day two, Cherohala on day three. All roads accessible within an hour of the pickup point.

Maryville is the county seat of Blount County, Tennessee, a small city of about 30,000 immediately adjacent to Alcoa (which is where TYS is physically located). The downtown is compact and walkable with a few restaurants and bars worth noting. Maryville College sits on a hill above the downtown area.

Most Drive865 renters passing through Maryville are doing so on the way to Townsend and the park. The US-321 corridor from Maryville to Townsend to Cades Cove is a scenic and efficient route that many guests prefer over the Pigeon Forge approach.