Tag: outside

• Hiker College

  

  Lookout Mountain. Signal Mountain. Raccoon Mountain. Chattanooga rests in the laps of multiple mountains, so why would hikers in Chattanooga go out of state looking for a mountain to climb? In the case of a hike Bill and I recently took with the Chattanooga Hiking Club, which has members living as far as 50 to […]

  Gina Stafford

  September 28, 2019

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  beautiful, Beautiful places, Berry College, explore, gardens, Georgia, hikers, Hiking, Lavender Mountain, Mountains, outdoors, outside, South, Southeast, Southern travel, travel, wander

• The Party With Purpose

  

  Over the 15 months since we moved to Chattanooga, Bill and I have steadily discovered more and more of what makes this area so highly acclaimed for its outdoor offerings. Mountains, valleys, lakes, rivers—calm and wild, it’s all here if you want to do it. And there are a whole lot of do-ers, like us. […]

  Gina Stafford

  September 15, 2019

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  Beautiful places, Chattanooga, Civil War Site, conservation, fun, Lookout Mountain, Mountains, National Park Partners, National Park Service, National Treasures, natural beauty, outdoors, outside, Party, Party with a purpose, Point Park, preservation, public lands, Southeast Tennessee, Summer, Tennessee

• The Cable Trail: A Humbling Tale

  

  I grew up about 45 minutes away from the most-visited of Tennessee’s 56 state parks, but I never got to experience it until a couple of days ago. We didn’t go to state parks except for the occasional family reunion when I was growing up. On Saturday, I went to Fall Creek Falls State Park–only […]

  Gina Stafford

  August 5, 2019

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  adventure, Cable Trail, Climbing, explore, Fall Creek Falls, fun, Get Outside, Hiking, outdoors, outside, rock climbing, Scenery, Tennessee, Tennessee State Parks, travel, waterfall