A guide to the Chattanooga metro area

Things to do in the Chattanooga metro area.

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Live music

Stages, songwriter nights, and where the room finds you.

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Food & drink

Restaurants, bars, cafés, breweries — the full table.

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The outdoors

Parks, trails, water, and time spent under the sky.

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Arts & theater

Museums, galleries, and the stages in between.

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Community & family

Attractions and the things you do with the whole crew.

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Shopping

Where to spend an afternoon and come home with something.

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Hunter Museum of American Art

Chattanooga · museum

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.

Lookout Mountain Incline Railway

Chattanooga · attraction

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.

Main Street Meats

Chattanooga · restaurant

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

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