history and science amidst natural beauty...welcome to the Hampton Inn Oak Ridge.Discover a heroic American city in Oak Ridge, where miraculous scientific innovations have aided humankind for the past 60 years. The Hampton Inn hotel in Oak Ridge is located in the heart of the business district, within walking distance of the American Museum of Science and Energy and only about twenty minutes from Knoxville.Explore Oak Ridge's valiant heritage as one of three top-secret cities to support the "Manhattan Project" in an effort to bring an end to WWII. See the formerly top-secret Y-12, K-25 and X-10 laboratories, all within minutes of our Oak Ridge hotel. In the years since the war, Oak Ridge has continued to contribute to humanity with life-improving innovations like flu vaccines, touch-screen computers and naval nuclear capabilities. Learn about all these at the American Museum of Science and Energy. Our hotel in Oak Ridge also puts you close to the Oak Ridge National Laboratories and t