Hanggliding off Lookout Mountain
by anderschwan
The Lookout Mountain Flight Park will teach you to Hangglide (you can ride tandem) if you dare. It is located in Rising Fawn, GA close to Chattanooga. There's no way on God's Green Earth that I would ever do it, but my friends have and they seemed to enjoy it. I would have to wear a Depend because heights are definitely not for me. But maybe someday I will try it.
Lookout Mountain
by goingsolo
Chattanooga has a number of interesting tourist attractions, with Lookout Mountain being the most popular. The sprawling mountain is a series of attractions, some more touristy and others more historical. For more information, feel free to visit my Lookout Mountain page.
The Chattanooga Choo Choo
by Stephen-KarenConn
The Chattanooga Choo Choo is the name of an actual train which ran from Cincinnati to Chattanooga, beginning in 1880, offering the first through passenger service to the South. This little steam engine was dubbed the Chattanooga Choo Choo by a newspaper reporter and later made famous by a 1941 Glenn Miller song, which became the music industry's first ever gold record. Alas, the last passenger train pulled out of the magnificant old Chattanooga Terminal Station on August 11, 1970. Today the Chattanooga Choo Choo, is a 24-acre vacation complex with restaurants, shops, gardens, a Model Railroad Museum, trolly rides and more. The entrance to the old Terminal Station, with its impressive free-standing 85-foot dome, is now the lobby of a Holiday Inn.
Every time I visit the Chattanooga Choo Choo, and I have done so dozens of times, I find myself remembering the wide-eyed excitement of coming here as a little boy. It was a bustling terminal then, with up to 68 trains arriving and departing daily. I came with my parents to pick up Grandmother Minor who often traveled by train from Decatur, Alabama to visit us. It was a noisy beehive of activity then, with hissing steam engines and clamoring crowds of people coming and going.
The Choo Choo is quieter now, but it can still be a lively place, and one that every visitor to Chattanooga should experience.
riverboat cruise
by doug48
a fun thing to do when in chattanooga is to take a tennessee riverboat cruise. replica 19 th century riverboats offer daytime sightseeing, lunch, and diner cruises. see the attached web site for times and prices.