Hiking routes around Chattanooga

American Perimeter Trail passes through Chattanooga: 35 sections with 12,429 km mapped in all, 37 km of them within 15 km. Of the routes listed here, the longest is Cumberland Trail, 382 km from Cumberland Gap to Signal Point. National routes account for the largest share: 37 of the 80 km of waymarked route within 15 km. Most of the 3 local routes are short walks: 2 of them are under 10 km.

• American Perimeter TrailNational · APT · 35 sections37 km within 15 km · 12,429 km in all
• Cumberland TrailRegional · CT19 km within 15 km · 382 km in all · Cumberland Gap to Signal PointTennessee State Parks
• Great Eastern Trail - Lookout MountainLocal · GET-LM18 km within 15 km
• Fort Oglethorpe GreenwayLocal5.7 km within 15 km

Each name opens the route on Waymarked Trails.

• Routes from Waymarked Trails, which draws the hiking routes mapped on OpenStreetMap (data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); counted on Oct 19, 2026.
• Only routes someone has mapped as a route on OpenStreetMap are counted. Signposted paths no one has mapped, and walks without waymarks, are not.
• Lengths within 15 km are measured on Waymarked Trails’ simplified lines and take in a route’s branches and variants; a path two routes share counts for each. A route’s length in all follows its main line along the mapped ways, and those marked “about” come from the simplified lines.

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