Editing Hamilton County, Tennessee (section)

===Natural areas of interest===
[[Raccoon Mountain Caverns]] is a show cave located 8 miles northwest of downtown Chattanooga. It was originally explored in 1929 by Leo Lambert who developed trails and installed lights and opened the cave to the public on June 28, 1931. The cave was opened under the name Tennessee Caverns. The operators of the cave claim that its explored length is over {{convert|5.5|mi}}.

The Crystal Caverns Cave Spider, ''Nesticus furtivus'', is only known from this one cave. Cave guides will occasionally spot one of these rare spiders and point it out to tourists.<ref>Larry E. Matthews, ''Caves of Chattanooga'', published by the National Speleological Society, 2007, {{ISBN|978-1-879961-27-2}}, Chapter 4 – Raccoon Mountain Caverns, pages 65–84.</ref>

[[Ruby Falls|Ruby Falls Cave]] is a show cave located on the side of [[Lookout Mountain]] south of downtown Chattanooga. It was discovered by accident on December 28, 1928, when it was intersected by an elevator shaft that was being drilled to develop Lookout Mountain Cave as a commercial cave. Ruby Falls Cave was intersected at a depth of 260 feet from the surface and Lookout Mountain Cave was reached later at a depth of 420 feet below the surface. The entire project was the work of cave developer Leo Lambert. He named the new cave's waterfall after his wife Ruby. The lower cave, Lookout Mountain Cave, opened to the public on December 30, 1929. Ruby Falls opened to the public on June 16, 1930. Ruby Falls Cave, with its spectacular waterfall proved the more popular of the two caves and it is the only cave open to the public at the present time.<ref>Larry E. Matthews, ''Caves of Chattanooga'', Chapter 1 – Lookout Mountain Cave, pages 13–30 and Chapter 3 – Ruby Falls Cave, pages 49–64.</ref>

Areas such as [[Lookout Mountain]] including the famous Point Park, and Sunset Rock. Point Park is a national military park that is a tribute to the battle of Lookout mountain that took place during the American Civil War. [[Lookout Mountain]] was the area in which the last battle of the [[Cherokee Indians]] took place. It also as battlegrounds during the [[American Civil War]] and served as a base for [[General Ulysses S. Grant]] troops during the [[American Civil War]]. There are many other important areas to note on [[Lookout Mountain]].