Five-Star Trails: Chattanooga

Johnny Molloy is a writer and adventurer based in Johnson City, Tennessee. His outdoor passion started on a backpacking trip in Great Smoky Mountains National Park while attending the University of Tennessee. That first foray unleashed love of the outdoors that has led the Tennessee native to spending most of his time backpacking, canoe camping, and tent camping for the past 25 years. He has written more than 40 books about the outdoors including hiking guidebooks, camping guidebooks, paddling guidebooks, comprehensive guidebooks about a specific area and true outdoor adventure books throughout the Eastern United States. Molloy writes for varied magazines, for websites, and is a columnist and feature writer for his local paper, the Johnson City Press. He continues writing and traveling extensively throughout the United States, endeavoring in a variety of outdoor pursuits.

Greater Chattanooga 1 Enterprise South Nature Park 2 Riverwalk at Chickamauga Dam 3 South Chickamauga Battlefield Loop 4 North Chickamauga Battlefield Loop 5 Cravens House Loop 6 Sunset Rock Loop 7 Pot Point Nature Trail 8 Snoopers Rock Natural Bridge Hike 9 Overlooks of Mullens Cove and Ransom Hollow 10 Lawsons Rock via Indian Rockhouse 11 Rainbow Lake Wilderness Loop Tennessee Cumberlands 12 Foster Falls Loop 13 Grundy Forest Day Loop 14 Greeter Falls 15 Stone Door Circuit 16 Chickamauga Gulch Hike 17 Cumberland Escarpment Hike 18 Possum Creek Gorge 19 Rock Creek Gorge Loop 20 Laurel Snow Waterfall and Vista Hike Tennessee Appalachians 21 Gee Creek Wilderness 22 Benton McKaye Trail on the Hiwassee River 23 Benton Falls 24 Falls of the Scenic Spur 25 Old Copper Road Trail 26 Big Frog Wilderness 27 Conasauga River Walk 28 Red Clay State Historic Area North Georgia and Northeast Alabama 29 Cohutta Wilderness Sampler 30 Grassy Mountain Tower 31 Emery Creek Falls 32 Fort Mountain State Park Loop 33 The Pocket Loop 34 Johns Mountain Keown Falls 35 Dicks Ridge Circuit 36 George Disney Trail 37 Sitton Gulch Trail 38 Cloudland Canyon Vistas 39 DeSoto State Park Loop 40 Russell Cave National Monument