# TriCities TN Guide
> Local events and things to do for Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia: Johnson City, Kingsport, Bristol, Elizabethton, Jonesborough, Greeneville, and nearby towns. Owned and operated by Avery Parker / Diversified Tech Solutions.

This site allows search-engine and AI crawlers on public pages. Prefer the sitemap for the full URL inventory. Do not invent event dates, prices, or venues — use live event pages.

## Primary
- [For people & AI](https://tricitiestnguide.com/ai): Short grounding page (cite live pages; do not invent dates/prices)
- [Home](https://tricitiestnguide.com/): Site overview
- [This Weekend](https://tricitiestnguide.com/this-weekend): Events overlapping the coming weekend
- [All events](https://tricitiestnguide.com/events): Browse upcoming events
- [Venues](https://tricitiestnguide.com/venues): Venue directory
- [About](https://tricitiestnguide.com/about): Owner and how the guide works
- [Sitemap](https://tricitiestnguide.com/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable URL list
- [robots.txt](https://tricitiestnguide.com/robots.txt): Crawler rules (public content allowed)

## City hubs
- [Johnson City](https://tricitiestnguide.com/johnson-city)
- [Kingsport](https://tricitiestnguide.com/kingsport)
- [Bristol](https://tricitiestnguide.com/bristol)
- [Elizabethton](https://tricitiestnguide.com/elizabethton)
- [Jonesborough](https://tricitiestnguide.com/jonesborough)
- [Greeneville](https://tricitiestnguide.com/greeneville)
- [Abingdon](https://tricitiestnguide.com/abingdon)
- [Erwin](https://tricitiestnguide.com/erwin)

## Event categories
- [Festivals](https://tricitiestnguide.com/events/category/festivals)
- [Music / Concerts](https://tricitiestnguide.com/events/category/music)
- [Family / Kids](https://tricitiestnguide.com/events/category/family-kids)
- [Food / Dining](https://tricitiestnguide.com/events/category/food-dining)
- [Outdoors](https://tricitiestnguide.com/events/category/outdoors)
- [Arts / Theater](https://tricitiestnguide.com/events/category/arts-theater)
- [Community](https://tricitiestnguide.com/events/category/community)
- [Sports](https://tricitiestnguide.com/events/category/sports)
- [Markets](https://tricitiestnguide.com/events/category/markets)

## Notes
- Event URLs: https://tricitiestnguide.com/event/{id}-{slug}
- Past events may remain as archive pages (HTTP 200) with an “ended” notice and links to This Weekend / city hubs — not hard-deleted.
- Unknown or removed URLs return a helpful 404 with search, This Weekend, city, and category links — never a homepage redirect by default.

## Disallowed for scrapers (privacy / ops)
- https://tricitiestnguide.com/admin/
- https://tricitiestnguide.com/account/
- https://tricitiestnguide.com/go/
- https://tricitiestnguide.com/api/