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Camp Ba Yo Ca
Camp Ba Yo Ca is a Christian camp in Sevierville, Tennessee, run by the Knox County Association of Baptists (Southern Baptist). It hosts youth summer camps, custom summer camps, high school retreats, and church/school group retreats and mission teams, though it does not publish an overnight, dining, or meeting capacity figure.
Facts verified from the camp’s own website · Last verified 2026-09-11
Getting there
- 1 h 10 min from Knoxville
- 2 h 25 min from Johnson City
- 2 h 30 min from Asheville, NC
2320 Happy Hollow Road, Sevierville, TN 37862 · drive times are typical, not rush hour
The facts
| Lodging | Lodge rooms (82 beds) · Dorm rooms (72 beds) · Cabins (72 beds) |
| Hosts | Youth groups |
| Affiliation | Southern Baptist (Knox County Association of Baptists) |
| Property | 150 acres |
| Established | 1952 |
| Phone | (865) 453-6274 |
The camp traces back to summer 1952, when the Brotherhood of the Knox County Association of Baptists first offered a camping experience to fifty boys, before the association bought 150 acres in Wears Valley in 1958 for a permanent site.