What is Scenic City Backroads?
Scenic City Backroads is a series of curated routes for locals and tourists, designed to help you explore the backroads around Chattanooga.
Your Local Guide
This series of scenic loops is about experiencing life on the back roads. It is about passing through small towns with drive-in theatres and about petting an old dog patiently waiting for his best friend at the front door of a small-town convenience store.
It is about a little girl and her grandpa on a riding mower waving to passing sports cars, or kids waving from back seats of cars sitting at traffic lights. It’s about the sweet scent of a cleared timber burning next to the highway.
The Scenic City Backroads is about and about meeting good-ole country folk in small town country stores with creaking wood floors. The scenic loops are about homemade mashed potatoes at small town restaurants that don’t even know what instant potatoes are.
It’s about visiting with fellow car lovers who are grinning from ear-to-ear as they also enjoy the outdoors and the occasional opportunity to open up the throttle for two-lane highways passing old pickup trucks.
The loops are about putting our feet in a cold mountain river and the water rushing so loud around the boulders it’s the only thing you can hear. The rides are about seeing old boarded-up motels long since closed for business and visualizing what must have been the generation prior to interstates. - Eddie
This project was created by Eddie Rahm, a third generation Chattanoogan, car-enthusiast, and biker. The project was presented by Eddie as a gift to the community for their riding enjoyment, and to promote Chattanooga as an unmatched vacation host. Hundreds of hours have been invested in finding, creating, and collecting these routes for you!
Eddie is a former contributing writer for The Bikers’ Dozen, Road Rash Magazine, and Kickstand Up! Magazine. When on a motorcycle, he enjoys using his cruiser for the more relaxing rides, or sport bike for the curvy back roads. When cruising around in his car, he prefers to put the top down on his convertible Porsche Boxter S.
Concierge for Car Groups
If you have a car group that plans to come to Chattanooga you may contact Eddie for his assistance regarding any custom route planning or accommodations. If desired he would be willing to meet with groups personally to enable your visit to go smoother. Please utilize the Contact Form to initiate this process.
I highly recommend Eddie’s drives and rides because you will definitely experience great roads, nice scenery, and excellent guidance. Eddie’s help has been invaluable to me. Thanks, Eddie!
Jim Maxwell - Tour Planner with the Authentic Shelby Cobras Group