Harrison

Bay Point Loop Trailhead

Bear Trace at Harrison Bay (TN Golf Trail)

Booker T. Washington State Park

Scenic state park offering bike trails, an Olympic-size pool, picnic areas & fishing.

Booker T. Washington State Park Visitor Center

Booker T. Washington State Park is a 353-acre (1.43 km2) park situated on the shores of Chickamauga Lake. It was built largely by African-American units of the Civilian Conservation Corps. It was originally designated under segregation as one of two Tennessee State Parks for use by blacks (the other being T. O. Fuller State Park near Memphis) until discrimination in public accommodations in the United States was banned under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Harrison Bay State Park

Wooded park with 40 miles of lakefront, plus boat facilities, camping & Jack Nicklaus golf course.

Harrison Bay State Park

Los Mich Mexican Restaurant

Queen's Egg Rolls & More

Sweeney's Bar-B-Q

Hunter Museum of American Art

⊙28 min drive

Opened in 1952 in a 1905 classical-revival mansion atop an 80-foot bluff, the museum now spans three connected buildings — the original mansion, a 1975 Brutalist wing, and a 2005 Randall Stout addition.

Tennessee Aquarium

⊙28 min drive

Two riverfront buildings on the downtown Tennessee River — River Journey traces water from Appalachian headwaters to the Gulf, Ocean Journey houses sharks, rays, and tropical reef life.

Main Street Meats

⊙29 min drive

Venue featuring a butcher shop & a modern, brick-walled American cafe for lunch, dinner & cocktails.

Lookout Mountain Incline Railway

⊙35 min drive

An 1895 funicular climbing Lookout Mountain at a 72.7% grade — among the world's steepest passenger railways — from St. Elmo's depot to Point Park, run today by Chattanooga's transit authority.

Ruby Falls

⊙35 min drive

A glass-front elevator drops 260 feet inside Lookout Mountain to a 63-foot underground waterfall Leo Lambert discovered in 1928 while drilling a tourist tunnel and named for his wife Ruby.

Rock City Gardens

⊙42 min drive

Garnet and Frieda Carter opened this Lookout Mountain garden trail in 1932, threading through ancient sandstone formations to Lover's Leap, where signage claims views of seven states.