Camp Discovery is a therapedic summer camp located at Gainesboro, Tennessee (between Nashville and Knoxville), for Tennessee-area children and adults with disabilities such as muscular dystrophy, cancer, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, as well as various developmental disabilities.
In 1971, Arc of the United States asked the Jaycees to open a Foster Grandparent Program.
Two years later, the ARC returned and asked to start another program for mentally disabled people.
Later, the Tennessee Jaycees Foundation was established in 1977, with John Germ as the president.
Many additions such as the dining hall, log cabins, and amphitheaters further enhanced the effectiveness of this camp.