Lookout Mountain

[RLowe]

First picture. Brown's Ferry about halfway up around the bend (left side) where Hazen and Turchin attacked on October 27, 1863. Led to reopening the Federal supply line at Chattanooga.

 

[donna]

Nice photos.

 

[bdtex]

Yep. Great photos and nice view. Been up there a couple of times. One of my favorite places. Gonna spend a whole day up there one of these times. Orchard Knob right before sunrise is pretty awesome too.

 

[DixieRifles]

One of my favorite places.

My Gr-Grandfather didn't like it. Nor Rock Island in the winter.

 

[Grant's Tomb]

A bit cloudy up there. Hence the name the Battle Above the Clouds.

 

[jackt62]

Great pictures!

 

[BronxYankee]

One of my favorite places. Nice pics.

 

[Hudson Valley Yank]

RLowe,

One of the most scenic places we've ever visited. Tennessee is a beautiful State.

Bill

 

[Podad]

Point Park on Lookout Mountain is one of my favorite places. I just love sitting and looking from there.

I think I remember reading that member James N. spent a honeymoon up there.

 

[Pollaco]

Sad to say I've never been "up there". Which way was the cameraman facing?

 

[RLowe]

A bit cloudy up there. Hence the name the Battle Above the Clouds.

Grant called the battle pure poetry, showing the relationship between himself and Hooker.

 

[RLowe]

Sad to say I've never been "up there". Which way was the cameraman facing?

Be north.

 

[RLowe]

Sad to say I've never been "up there". Which way was the cameraman facing?

First picture: The Union had two gun batteries on Moccasin Bend, just north of the river that severely hampered the Confederates ability to move men and supplies into the valley, which was to the left of the photo, Lookout Valley.

 

[DixieRifles]

Point Park on Lookout Mountain is one of my favorite places. I just love sitting and looking from there.

Dont just sit on top. Drive to the Cravens House on the North face. Then take the trail around to the West side and see where the battle was actually fought.

 

[James N.]

Point Park on Lookout Mountain is one of my favorite places. I just love sitting and looking from there.

I think I remember reading that member James N. spent a honeymoon up there.

Chanticleer Lodge, seen here in a period postcard, was where we stayed and not far from the famous Rock City Gardens; it's still there, recently renovated, and operates as a charming B&B. Below, my then-new bride in the foreground listening to a NPS ranger in Point Park.

 

[RLowe]

Been there too

 

[lupaglupa]

Such a beautiful spot!

 

[gjpratt]

I stayed at the Chanticleer last time I was in Chattanooga 4 or 5 years ago. I liked it very much. There are some very good small restaurants and bistros on in the Tennessee side of Lookout Mountain City. I can't speak to restaurants on the Georgia side as the ones on the Tennessee were closer and more convenient to the inn. One of my contacts I was visiting lives in a house that straddles the state line. Another one lives west of Chattanooga and his house straddles the CST/EST dividing line.

 

[James N.]

I stayed at the Chanticleer last time I was in Chattanooga 4 or 5 years ago. I liked it very much. There are some very good small restaurants and bistros on in the Tennessee side of Lookout Mountain City. I can't speak to restaurants on the Georgia side as the ones on the Tennessee were closer and more convenient to the inn. One of my contacts I was visiting lives in a house that straddles the state line. Another one lives west of Chattanooga and his house straddles the CST/EST dividing line.

That sounds like about the same time I re-visited there, or maybe it was by now just a little longer than that. I forget the name of the nice restaurant we went to, but it was on the way from there to Point Park.

 

[DixieRifles]

Chanticleer Lodge, seen here in a period postcard, was where we stayed and not far from the famous Rock City Gardens

I think that is where my wife & I stayed many years ago.