07-31-2010, 10:37 PM
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Music City
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Originally Posted by ShadowDancer
the aquarium is TWO big buildings that takes a minimum of 2-3 hours to view all of it  Me & the fam love it. There's "Jack's Alley" with a bunch of restaurants to choose from...Plus lots of other food places around. The Chickamauga Battlefields are close by for the history buffs..as well as Stone Mountain, GA; the Incline; and other such Civil War memorabilia type places/monuments. There's even a "preserved" monument on the side of the hill near my job here...called Boynton Park. There's a Drive-In theater about a 15-20 min drive just outside Chattanooga--a family friendly environment, but fun none the less. Plus, for those that would enjoy the walk through our downtown, we have a walking ghost tour complete with story tellers (Chattanooga Ghost Tours). The Chattanooga Duck tours (by duck boat) on the river and our own Southern Belle Riverboat. |
Chattanoogie has long been a fave day trip for me, only 120 miles from Nashville. Also an excellent halfway point for trips to Atlanta, which makes the 'Noog a central point for 2 large well-known southern cities.
Personal fave tourist traps in the area include Ruby Falls (cool caving, but not for claustrophobics) and Lookout Mountain is another great Civil War hangout. Rock City I found overrated, & my acrophobia won't let me even look at the Incline 
And the TN Aquarium was tres cool when I visited last, if it's been improved it must be overwhelming now.
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