Chattanooga Travel Services

Fantastic experience: Excellent view!!

Fantastic experience: The Vistor's Center was a delight! The volunteer of the day was exceptional: knowledgeable, courteous, patient, and welcoming. The video and exhibits were very helpful with demonstrating information. The reservoir and mountains were peaceful and were the nature re-set I needed.

Fantastic experience: Stunning! No need to hike. Handicap accessible, a short distance to breathtaking views. Pictures don't do this justice.

Positive experience: Nice visitor center. Tells the history of the TVA and the Racoon Mountain site. Really great overlook there that oversees the river and the Gorge. Lots of trails also, and another overlook that oversees Chattanooga.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic and super well maintained!

Fantastic experience: It's so beautiful out there

Fantastic experience: Took my Mother for the first time. Love this place.

Fantastic experience: Nice little drive up. Great view! Learned about the mountain at the vistor center.

Fantastic experience: This place is worth the visit. Amazing views at this hidden gem.

Fantastic experience: You need google directions to find this place. It has beautiful mountain top views and a great visitor center explaining how this TVA mountain top reservoir / generating facility works. A great short side trip for vacationers.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful place to visit. Best thing, it's free!

Fantastic experience: Very well done has a lot of information, the staff were very knowledgeable and helpful.

Fantastic experience: Great hiking around the area. Easy trails. Visitors center is very interesting.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful country.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful views!!!!!!

Positive experience: The view is beautiful but the ride to the center is very long if one has to go to the bathroom.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful place to see if you've never been.

Positive experience: Unless you're a mountain biker, I'd skip this.

Fantastic experience: What’s good? This joint is a fun treat and definitely worth stopping by. It’s a super mini-museum filled to the brim with indoor and outdoor displays. Outside includes fabulous overlooks–one at the museum overlooking the gorge and another across the road overlooking the reservoir. Inside includes interactive exhibits and videos. The best part of our visit was the wonderful conversation with the ladies running the show–they were super friendly and knowledgeable about the reservoir operations. If you are interested in dams and related infrastructure, I would recommend checking out this place. The time investment is minimal. What’s bad? Nothing to report.

Fantastic experience: Got to go see the visitors center, so much information

Fantastic experience: Love it

Fantastic experience: Excellent place for walking, with trails for walking and biking, plus it has excellent views.

Fantastic experience: A magical place to spend time with family.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful view of the gorge

Fantastic experience: Beautiful views

Fantastic experience: GORGEOUS!

Fantastic experience: Awesome place to learn new things, I just randomly turned down a road and spent an hour here

Fantastic experience: Beautiful place

Fantastic experience: Awesome!

Positive experience: Beautiful views.

Fantastic experience: Educational visit for sure! Tucked out of the way, but very interesting to learn how they generate electricity from under the mountain.

Fantastic experience: Very nice ride up with some great overlooks. Visitor center was very informative. Nice clean restrooms.

Fantastic experience: Very awesome scenery. There's a few people that usually give information about the site as well.

Fantastic experience: Such scenery! Take your time and explore the videos explaining the changes that TVA brought to Tennessee.

Fantastic experience: Temporarily closed, but I still recommend stopping by. Located on top of the mountain, in the back of the visitor center there is a gorgeous view of the river and surrounding mountains. There are a few benches to enjoy as well. Since I didn’t go in the center, I’ll tell you about the outside- Super interesting educational plaques all around talking about the wildlife on the mountain and how the mountain is used for electricity. The electricity part was the coolest and explains why there are so many power lines and utility looking structures around the mountain- this mountain provides electricity to the whole valley. If you are doing the ole drive around I definitely recommend parking here and taking a look.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful sight its amazing

Positive experience: Closed for COVID

Fantastic experience: Very well kept area thats actually huge with amazing views

Fantastic experience: Beautiful views, interesting place to visit.

Fantastic experience: Go experience this place! A great place to hike, bike, picnic, view the Chattanooga area. See a damm on top of the mountain, understand more the history of the TVA structure. Drive carefully for there are deer they like to cross the road. Take a picnic lunch and go enjoy a relaxing day in nature.

Fantastic experience: Great views of the city and great place to visit.

Positive experience: Really enjoyed our visit. Disappointed that the visitor center was closed.

Fantastic experience: Loved it!!! Need to come back with a bike!

Negative experience: Very disappointing ...it wasn't open due to covid...all have been vaccinated....looks like a beautiful place would have love to see how it works

Positive experience: It said open on the website, but it was closed

Negative experience: Warning - it's 10:30 on Saturday and the gate is locked. There isn't even signage as to why and when.

Fantastic experience: The view

Positive experience: Nice hiking. Beware the visitor center is currently closed (including the bathrooms) due to COVID.

Positive experience: Cool! But they should not have closed the restrooms

Negative experience: It is CLOSED for Covid!!!???

Fantastic experience: Awesome view very pretty overlook

Fantastic experience: Wonderful gem to visit and best of all it’s free. Excellent view points in multiple places. Time well spent.

Fantastic experience: Definitely worth visiting Raccoon Mountain (including the visitor center) to learn about one of TVA’s more interesting projects.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful

Positive experience: Interesting small museum with many walking trails

Fantastic experience: Beautiful hiking and scenic

Fantastic experience: Good trails for running and some stunning views

Positive experience: Interesting place with nice overlook of Tennessee River valley.

Fantastic experience: Great views and awesome volunteers

Fantastic experience: Beautiful setting nice and quiet is surreal. I wish you could still go down to view the turbines Underground. But because of 9/11 they can no longer do that, which I understand.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful views

Fantastic experience: Great place to Mountain bike

Fantastic experience: It was amazing and I've lived here for a while I've never seen anything like that

Fantastic experience: Super interesting facility with great information and views. Also looks like a good place to bike or run.

Fantastic experience: Enjoyed the ride

Fantastic experience: Awesome mountain bike trail. Riding a loop around this trail makes me feel like I accomplished something challenging, yet is is very fun.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful

Fantastic experience: Beautiful view and educational regarding water flow and energy.

Fantastic experience: Came to visit my son, daughter in law and grandkids. They brought us here to show us and it's such a beautiful place to visit. Would love to explore more when it's not so chilly and wet...

Fantastic experience: Súper bueno para tomarse fotod

Negative experience: It was closed for the season. Nice building though..

Fantastic experience: Best view of Chattanooga.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful scenery!! Awesome visitor center!!

Fantastic experience: A great drive throughout the entire property!! Fantastic visitors center that is very informative and interesting. Plenty of trails for walking and biking. Great views of downtown Chattanooga, the river, and the entire valley from the Eastern overlook. Don't miss it!

Fantastic experience: Very amazing engineering feat, plus a great hiking/outdoor venue. Well done TVA!!

Fantastic experience: What a beautiful place, you can take great pictures!. The view is incredible, there's a free park with a parking lot. There's a good infographic display about the nature around and the pumped storage facility. Also, there's a clean public restroom.

Fantastic experience: Simply Awesome! Views and trails are truly incredible!

Fantastic experience: Some of the best views in the state outside of The Great Smokies National Park.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful place where I have Great Memories of my dad

Fantastic experience: This is one of the most spectacular views of the Tennessee River Gorge!! And, I'm fortunate enough to live 5 minutes from this awe inspiring place!!

Fantastic experience: Very nice place to go for hiking, boating, fishing and great photo taking. We even saw a wedding party there. Visitor center was nice - the volunteer staff were very helpful and friendly. I was on a knee scooter and it was easy to get around the area. Although we did not go on the hiking trails.

Positive experience: Pretty views, quiet and peaceful place. Great place to chill and unwind from the craziness of life.

Fantastic experience: Raccoon Mountain is nice. Scenic drive on a nice road, lots of hiking and biking trails, good historical presentations on the TVA and how their system works. Great place for scenery and picnicking.

Positive experience: Lots of history. Can see forever at overlook. Interesting to see how hydro energy is produced.

Fantastic experience: Good place to go to

Fantastic experience: Oh my goodness! I would recommend a visit. So beautiful. Amazing staff at visitor center.

Fantastic experience: Seen deer and a lot of history. Thank you

Positive experience: Overall the Raccoon mountain is a scenic beauty. The view from the visitor center is amazing and the Tennessee river view is so pleasing to watch. The people in the center explained us the next things available around there and places to stop for enjoying the scenic overlook. Around the place there are things like reservoir overlook, hangouts place where if you prepare food and go a large group can spend excellent time and there is volleyball court. One more overlook is there where we can watch the glimpse of entire Chattanooga!! Overall one time we can roam around Raccoon Mountain definitely!!

Fantastic experience: Great place learned a lot

Fantastic experience: Wonderful place, amazing views, very interesting.

Fantastic experience: Looked nice, with a viewing deck on the back. We were hiking and bypassed the visitor center on our way around the lake.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful place to visit

Fantastic experience: Had fun on a rainy day. Beautiful scenery. Enjoyed it very much.

Fantastic experience: Love it!!

Fantastic experience: Such a great place to visit. The scenery is amazing and the visitors center is very educational.

Fantastic experience: neat, educational

Fantastic experience: Very informative a great visit

Fantastic experience: So worth taking in the views here.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful views from here and a great map to show all the hikes from the top.

Fantastic experience: Is nice but I want to know why they call it Raccoons mountain, I ask the lady that work there but she said she dosen't know why is call that.