For anyone who has traveled back and forth on Interstate 24 from Chattanooga to Nashville and beyond, Monteagle is the place for lunch and bathroom breaks, but there is much more to the mountain than just as a good place for a pit stop.
Shops, restaurants, abundant natural beauty and hiking trails make it a place worthy of spending a few hours or a few days. Music fans who attend the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in nearby Manchester in June have found it a convenient place to overnight if camping at the event is not desired.
Monteagle is home to a mountain population that is a mix of descendants of early Swiss colonists and Scots-Irish settlers, as well as artists and academics from The University of the South in Sewanee just down the road.
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*Population: 1,238