The outdoors in the Chattanooga metro area.

Pinhoti Trail

Pioneer Frontier Park

Point Park

Point Park Battlefield

Elevated memorial park, featuring Civil War monuments, artillery & exhibits, plus sweeping vistas.

Possum Creek Gorge (Cumberland Trail South)

Wilder, less-trafficked Cumberland Trail segment with a swinging suspension bridge and waterfalls.

Pot Point Nature Trail

Prentice Cooper State Forest Trailhead parking

Riverfront destination with a sprawling forest, 35 miles of hiking trails & primitive campsites.

Rainbow Lake Trailhead

Rainbow Lake Wilderness Area & Suspension Bridge

Town-owned natural area with a small dam, a swinging suspension bridge, swimming hole and creek scrambling — quintessential local outing.

Raisin Woods Mountain Bike Park

Mountain bikers at all levels can ride one of 7 courses at this dedicated outdoor nature park.

Red Bank City Park

Red Clay State Park

State park with Native American exhibits & cultural activities, plus picnic areas & an amphitheater.

Reflection Riding Arboretum & Nature Center

Educational programs & tours are offered at this nature center which houses many plants & animals.

Renaissance Park

Ringgold Playground

Riverview Park

Rock City Gardens

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.

Rocktown Trailhead

Rocky Face Ridge / Buzzard Roost Recreation Area

Long mountain spine west of Dalton; site of multiple 1864 Confederate defensive works, hiking access on the Pinhoti.

Ross's Landing

Urban recreational area with an amphitheater, pier, playground, marina & walkways along the river.

Sale Creek Marina Multiboating

Schimmels Park

Park at Lee University featuring picnic areas, benches, a pavilion & a half-mile track.

Sculpture Garden

Sequatchie County Veterans Memorial Park

Shackleford Ridge Park

Town park with athletic fields, playground, picnic shelters, and trail connections.

Shellmound Campground

Shepherd Park

Signal Point

Signal Point, NPS

Sitton's Gulch Trailhead

Skyuka Springs Trailhead

Soddy-Daisy Veterans Park

Southern Adventist University Arboretum

Southern Adventist University is a private Seventh-day Adventist university in Collegedale, Tennessee. It is owned and operated by the Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. It was founded in 1892 in Graysville, Tennessee, as Graysville Academy and was the first Adventist school in the southern U.S. Due to the need for additional space for expansion the school relocated in 1916 and was renamed Southern Junior College.

Southside Community Park

Spring Creek Greenway access (East Ridge end)

Springvale Park

Sterchi Farm Trailhead

Stinging Fork Falls State Natural Area

Stringers Ridge Park

Stuart Park

Student Park

Summit of Softball

Sweet Melissa's Billiards

Tacoa Park

Taylor Ridge / Taylors Ridge Wildlife Management Area trailheads

Pinhoti Trail accesses Taylors Ridge for ridgeline hiking with views into both the Tennessee Valley and the Armuchee Valley.

Tennessee Riverpark

Landscaped trail tracing a 10-mile river dotted with public art, picnic tables & fishing piers.

The Honors Course

The Pumpkin Patch Playground