Neighborhoods · Chattanooga area

Signal Mountain

People ask about Signal Mountain when they want the ridge, the woods, and a town that still feels like a town.

Cliff above the river, with a distant truss bridge and a mountain beyond

Overview

Wide valley seen from a mountain overlook, stone wall in the foreground

Signal Mountain sits on Walden's Ridge, at the southern end of the Cumberland Plateau. The town takes its name from Signal Point, which looks over the Tennessee River and Chattanooga. The town describes itself as residential.

Getting around

Two-lane road through dense green forest

Signal Mountain Boulevard is named on the town park list, at Shoal Creek. Signal Point is at the end of Signal Point Road, and the reservation has parking.

Things to do

Waterfall over a rock ledge into a shaded pool

Signal Point is part of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park and is an access point for the Cumberland Trail. Rainbow Lake is a hike on the trail that starts on Ohio Avenue near Alexian Village. The town lists 18 miles of trails that loop from Shackleford Ridge Park through Prentice Cooper State Forest.

Homes you'll find

Row of light-sided houses with dark roofs and young street trees

The town calls itself residential. Its history describes the houses that grew up around the old Signal Mountain Inn, in the area now called the Old Town District.

Schools

Yellow wildflowers in a green field, hazy mountains behind them

For school information, see the official sources:Hamilton County Schools·Tennessee Department of Education. We don't rate or rank schools.

Commute

Tree-lined residential street seen through a car windshield

The Town of Signal Mountain says it is about ten miles from downtown Chattanooga.

Fair housing: we describe places and amenities, not who lives there.

Sources: signalmountaintn.gov/history.php · signalmountaintn.gov/parks.php · nps.gov/signal-point.htm