Lookout Mountain

He gazes up at Lookout Mountain, which is gilded by sunrise, and then down to the city below.

Assumption 2010

Uneasy at the softening muscles and sinews of this long inaction, I took snow-shoes and a couple of Kobuks one day and made an ascent of the hill behind Bettles known as Lookout Mountain, because from its top the smoke of the eagerly expected first steamboat of the summer may be seen many miles down the river; being moved to that particular excursion by dispute among the weather-bound freighters as to the hill's height.

Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891

Lookout Mountain, which is to the right when looking uphill from the base lodge, rises

Adirondack Daily Enterprise 2008

BILL CODY DIED in January but wasn’t buried till June, the reason being that Harry Tammen had sweet-talked Lulu Cody into burying Bill in the wrong place; not in the town of Cody, Wyoming, which was named for him, but on the rocky knob called Lookout Mountain, outside of Denver.

Telegraph Days Larry Mcmurtry 2006

Now, Lookout Mountain is known for the garden gnome-filled roadside attractions Rock City and Ruby Falls, and if this group was standing there today, they might be straining to "See Seven States!" as the plaques boast.

Carolyn Vega: Before Chickamauga Carolyn Vega 2011

The battles of Chattanooga, Chickamauga, and Lookout Mountain took place on the slopes below.

Carolyn Vega: Before Chickamauga Carolyn Vega 2011

The battles of Chattanooga, Chickamauga, and Lookout Mountain took place on the slopes below.

Carolyn Vega: Before Chickamauga Carolyn Vega 2011

This 1863 photograph shows a group of unidentified soldiers and women atop Lookout Mountain, on the Tennessee-Georgia border.

Carolyn Vega: Before Chickamauga Carolyn Vega 2011

This 1863 photograph shows a group of unidentified soldiers and women atop Lookout Mountain, on the Tennessee-Georgia border.

Carolyn Vega: Before Chickamauga Carolyn Vega 2011

Now, Lookout Mountain is known for the garden gnome-filled roadside attractions Rock City and Ruby Falls, and if this group was standing there today, they might be straining to "See Seven States!" as the plaques boast.

Carolyn Vega: Before Chickamauga Carolyn Vega 2011