About Experience Chattanooga:
Experience Chattanooga is a local small business offering private guided hikes with transportation, professional photography, snacks, waters, and local restaurant discount coupons included. All hikes are led by the husband & wife owners: Ryan & Hope.
Our guided hikes are so much more than simply meeting up for a walk in the woods together. We strive to provide an exceptional, all-inclusive service so that you can make the most of your visit to Chattanooga without worrying about how to get to the best views, what to bring, or where to go once you’re out on the hiking trails. We’re here to help you experience the southeast Tennessee outdoors in the easiest & safest way possible. We can’t wait for you to join us on an adventure!
Read below for more info about the service we provide.
Our Experiences include:
Private tours always
Don’t expect to share your Experience with strangers. It’s your own personal tour, not a group tour — just you, whoever you decide to bring along, the guides, and their cameras! We specialize in private tours for couples, families, solo travelers, and small groups.
Transportation
All tours include transportation to & from the hiking trails. Most of our hiking tours are within an hour drive or less of Chattanooga, TN.
If you’re visiting and staying in downtown Chattanooga, we’ll pick you up from your Airbnb/hotel. If you’re staying outside of the immediate downtown area, we will have you meet us at our local pick-up spot then drive you to the trails from there!
If you live here, we will have you meet us at our local pick-up spot.
Professional photography
After the tour, you’ll receive a personalized, edited photo gallery from your adventure. These photos are included in the tour price!
The photo gallery is sent to your email and can be easily downloaded to a computer or straight to your phone for free.
Enjoy the views while your guides capture professional photos on their camera of your adventure, so you don’t have to! If you book an Experience with us, you can expect to come away with several high-quality photos that you will look back on and cherish.
expert local Guidance
You can rest assured that you are in great hands as you hike with two local experts who know Chattanooga very well and have hiked the trails numerous times.
Since opening in 2018, Hope & Ryan (the owners & tour guides) have led hundreds of people around the trails near Chattanooga. We are professionally licensed, insured, certified and absolutely love showing people visiting Chattanooga our beautiful area!
Fun Fact: Experience Chattanooga was the first company in the entire state of Tennessee to obtain official Tennessee State Park commercial tour guiding permits — operating by the highest standards of safety & integrity in our industry.
We give back a portion of all bookings to the parks + communities we guide in. We are passionate about keeping the places we hike conserved, clean, and left better than we found them — and maintain Leave No Trace principles on all of our Experiences.
Check out our Reviews page & the Meet Your Guides page to learn more about Hope & Ryan.
Snacks, Waters & Towels
We provide snacks & waters on all of our tours.
Let us pack & carry all the necessities so you can relax & enjoy your adventure with as little weight as possible on your back!
In warmer months (May-September) on waterfall-swimming tours, we’ll have clean towels for you to use to dry off after your time in the water.
Restaurant discounts
Save money on delicious, Chattanooga-local food & drinks after the adventure!
Each one of our Experiences comes with coupons to our partner restaurants.