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CHATTANOOGA

The guide

The trails we actually run, with real distances, real climb, and the route file so you can put it on your watch before you leave the house.

13 spots · 10 areas · Kept current by Bad Beard Events

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Chickamauga Lake

  1. Booker T. Washington State Park

    Chattanooga's first purpose-built mountain bike trail, on the lake — a rooty 3.8-mile outer loop.

    3.8 mi · 448 ft · LoopModerateDog-friendly

East Brainerd

  1. Enterprise South Nature Park

    Ten miles of hiking trail with no bikes allowed, on soft mulch, in an old munitions plant.

    4.9 mi · 429 ft · LoopEasyDog-friendly

Hixson

  1. Greenway Farm

    A flat 2-mile loop on North Chickamauga Creek in Hixson, with a fenced off-leash dog park.

    2 mi · 72 ft · Trail networkEasyDog-friendly

Lookout Mountain

  1. Guild Trail

    The old incline grade from St. Elmo up Lookout Mountain — five miles of steady, runnable climb.

    5.4 mi · 666 ft · Out and backModerateDog-friendly

  2. Sunset Rock

    A bluff ledge over the Tennessee River valley, reached by 3.2 miles of climbing from Cravens House.

    Viewpoint · 3.2 mi · 469 ft · Out and backModerateDog-friendly

Lookout Valley

  1. Reflection Riding

    Ten miles of trail ten minutes from downtown Chattanooga, where Bad Beard runs Oli Kai — a flat gravel loop and a 1,256-foot climb to Sunset Rock.

    10 mi · Trail networkModerateDog-friendlyWater

North Shore

  1. Stringer's Ridge

    Seven miles of shaded single-track ten minutes from downtown Chattanooga, with an overlook straight down the Tennessee River.

    3.7 mi · 531 ft · Trail networkModerateDog-friendly

Prentice-Cooper

  1. Mullens Cove Loop

    The 9.8-mile gorge-rim loop in Prentice-Cooper where Bad Beard runs River Gorge every November.

    9.8 mi · 1,700 ft · LoopHardDog-friendly

Raccoon Mountain

  1. Raccoon Mountain

    28 miles of single-track around a TVA reservoir, including a 14-mile loop with real climbing.

    14.2 mi · 1,450 ft · LoopHardDog-friendly

Signal Mountain

  1. Rainbow Lake

    A 2.3-mile loop on Signal Mountain to a 1916 dam, a waterfall and the swimming hole below it.

    2.3 mi · LoopEasyDog-friendlyWater

  2. Signal Point to Edwards Point

    Bluff-edge Cumberland Trail above the Tennessee River Gorge, 5.1 miles out and back from Signal Point.

    5.1 mi · Out and backModerateDog-friendly

  3. Suck Creek

    Pools and rapids in the creek below Signal Mountain, reached from pull-offs on Suck Creek Road.

    Swimming hole · Out and backEasyDog-friendly

Soddy Daisy

  1. Blue Hole at North Chickamauga

    Soddy Daisy's best-known swimming hole — closed for trailhead construction until around spring 2027.

    Swimming holeDog-friendly

RACE COURSES

Our courses are open ground the other 364 days a year. Every one has the route file and the elevation profile on its own page.