Crossroads Cat Café

Nashville, Tennessee · 7 mi / 11 km

The Catio Cat Lounge is a nonprofit cat lounge and adoption center on Music Valley Drive in Nashville, near the Opryland and Opry Mills area. Run by Catio Cat Lounge Inc., a 501(c)(3), it rescues and rehomes around a thousand cats a year and puts particular effort into senior, shy, sick or injured cats that struggle to get adopted elsewhere; a second room, the Senior Catio, gives older cats with special needs their own space. Visitors pay a small fee to spend time with the free-roaming cats in a cage-free lounge, with walk-ins welcome and reservations recommended; the last booking starts an hour before closing. There is a small snack and coffee bar and a gift shop with Catio merchandise. Family packages, group rates, prepaid visits and monthly memberships are offered, the lounge can be rented for private events, and it hosts painting and movie nights with the cats.

• Adoptable cats
• Booking recommended

Murfreesboro, Tennessee · 31 mi / 50 km

Catfeine Cat Cafe is a cat lounge and foster home on Cason Lane in Murfreesboro, southeast of Nashville, where 15 to 20 adoptable cats from local rescue groups live cage-free while they wait for homes. Visits are one hour, charged per person, with up to 12 guests per hour; reservations are strongly encouraged and walk-ins are taken only when space allows. Guests must be 10 or older to book, and children aged 7 to 9 can come with an adult for a short walk-in visit when it is quiet. Shoes come off before entering, so socks are needed. It is not a full cafe: a self-serve bean-to-cup coffee machine, cold drinks and packaged snacks are sold, and drinks go into the lounge with lids. The cafe has a gift shop and holds events such as bingo nights.

• Adoptable cats
• Booking recommended

Huntsville, Alabama · 102 mi / 164 km

Cattyshack is a nonprofit cat rescue with a cat lounge in Studio 1062 of Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment, the converted cotton mill full of artist studios and galleries in west Huntsville. The rescue, founded in 2019, keeps its cats in foster homes and brings a rotating group of adoptable cats and kittens into the home-style lounge on Fridays and Saturdays, so visitors can play with them or simply relax in their company without any plan to adopt. Reservations are required and are made online with a set donation per person. Adoptions start with a non-binding application and are processed by volunteers, so cats are not taken home on the same day. The lounge is reached through Door 2 of Lowe Mill, with an accessible entrance at Door 4, and a visit is easy to combine with a walk through the studios.

• Adoptable cats
• Booking required

Owensboro, Kentucky · 110 mi / 178 km

The Handsome Cat Café & Adoption Center is a cat lounge in The Thatch shopping center on Sweeney Street in Owensboro, between Art Lab Owensboro and Moonbow Apothecary. It is run by Saving Paws Animal Rescue of Kentucky (SparKY), a nonprofit founded in 2006. Opened in July 2026 as Owensboro's first cat cafe, it gives the rescue's adoptable cats and kittens a calm place to meet people, and only cats that are fully vetted, vaccinated and fixed are brought in, so numbers vary. Visitors pay a small admission fee and can book online or come in during opening hours, generally Wednesday to Sunday from morning to mid-afternoon. No food or drinks are served, apart from bags of Kitty Town Coffee for sale, but guests may bring their own. Adoptions follow SparKY's standard process and fees, and the lounge can be rented for parties and workshops.

• Adoptable cats
• Booking recommended

Chattanooga, Tennessee · 116 mi / 187 km

Naughty Cat Cafe is a large cat lounge in the historic St. Elmo district of Chattanooga, across Tennessee Avenue from the lower station of the Lookout Mountain Incline Railway and a short drive from Ruby Falls and Rock City. Its lounges cover more than 2,000 square feet over several rooms, with sofas, art, window perches and a fish tank, and act as a big foster home for local shelters, with at least 30 adoptable rescue cats in residence. Entry is charged per person for up to an hour and includes a non-alcoholic drink, and the fee goes to the cats' care. There is no kitchen, but baked goods from a local bakery, locally roasted coffee, tea and local craft beers and ciders are sold. Visitors must be at least 11, with an adult for every two guests aged 11 to 15, and booking ahead is strongly recommended.

• Adoptable cats
• Booking recommended

Elizabethtown, Kentucky · 118 mi / 190 km

Lucy & Oscar's Cat Cafe is a cat lounge and cat-themed shop on North Dixie Highway in Elizabethtown. Its adoptable cats and kittens come mainly from the Hardin County Animal Shelter, and the lounge regularly includes special-needs cats. Visits are booked online in 50-minute sessions, each person in a group needs their own spot, and 10 to 12 visitors at a time fill the room. Everyone signs an agreement on arrival, and there can be no more than two minors per adult. Friday and Saturday evening sessions from 7 PM are for adults only, and parties of eight or more are asked to email ahead. Packaged drinks and snacks can be bought before a visit and enjoyed in the cafe area, and the shop sells cat-themed gifts. The cafe hosts evening events such as Cats & Crochet, crochet classes and tie-dye nights, and posts new arrivals and adoptions on Facebook.

• Adoptable cats
• Booking required