The are many ways for visitors to find their way around the Scenic City - old military vehicles, a mountain-climbing vertical railroad and even good old-fashioned hoofin' it.
The rise of alternative and sight-seeing tourist transportation is another consequence of Chattanooga's blossoming tourism scene.
"Oh God, (business has been) great for us," says Alex Moyers, owner of Chattanooga Ducks.
Mike Warman, Guantanamo Bay Association coordinator, left, and Jo Aubertin sit with other veterans who served at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during a Chattanooga Ducks boat tour event for their annual reunion Tuesday. Two ducks were tethered and members of the Guantanamo Bay Association held a brief memorial service for their deceased members at the finale of the tour.One of the first alternative sight-seeing services in town, the Ducks program was founded almost two decades ago and is more prosperous now than ever.
Today, with tourism's billion-dollar-a-year draw, it's also common to see a rolling bar glide down Market Street, powered by a host of pedaling legs.
On fall afternoons, spectators roar up and down the Tennessee River on the Tennessee Aquarium's slick River Gorge Explorer.
And when the sky is clear, you can even get a bird's eye view from a hot air balloon floating above the city.
Chattanooga will always be home of the Choo Choo, but visitors and residents alike would be remiss to merely associate the city with rails - though thanks to the historic coal-powered Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum trains, you can get that experience, too.
Ways to go
Lookout Mountain Incline Railway * Introduction: Nov. 1895 * Vehicle: Two incline rail cars * Annual trips made: 20,000 * Average length of ride: 20 minutes * Average cost of ride: $15 (adults) * Busiest season: Fall Chattanooga Bicycle Transit System * Introduction: 2012 * Vehicles: 300 bicycles, at 33 docking stations * Trips made: 103,000 trips since 2012 * Calories burned: 18,619,000 * Average cost of ride: Membership required (minimum $5) plus hourly rates * Busiest season: Summer Chattanooga Horse Trams * Introduction: 1992 * Vehicle: Horse-drawn carriage * Annual trips made: Around 500 * Average length of ride: 20 minutes * Average cost of ride: $40, one to four riders * Busiest season: Summer Chattanooga Ducks * Introduction: 1997 * Vehicles: Four Ducks, with a fifth on the way * Trips made: 20 trips a day average in summer, carry 40,000 riders a year * Average length of ride: One hour * Average cost of ride: $22 (adult) * Busiest season: Summer CARTA Electric shuttle * Introduction: June 1992 * Vehicle: All-electric shuttle * Trips made: More than 1 million, about 20 million riders * Average length of ride: 10-15 minutes * Average cost of ride: Free * Busiest season: Summer * Double-decker bus * Introduction: 2010 * Vehicle: 2-level, open-air bus, nicknamed Eleanor * Average length of ride: 1 hour * Average cost of ride: $20 * Busiest season: Summer Chattanooga Sidewalk Tours * Introduction: 2011 * Vehicle: Walking tour, guided tour bus * Number of vehicles: 15 * Annual trips made: Around 60 in 2014 * Average length of ride: Two hours * Average cost of ride: $15 for adults, $7 for kids 12 and under * Busiest season: Summer months Chattanooga Balloon Company * Introduction: Jan. 2015 * Vehicle: Hot air balloon * Number of vehicles: Two * Annual trips made: 100 * Average length of ride: One hour * Average cost of ride: $200 * Busiest season: March-October Bellhops rickshaw * Introduction: March 2015 * Vehicle: Man-drawn rickshaw buggy * Average length of ride: Dependent on destination * Average cost of ride: Free