Sunny Montgomery writes for several Chattanooga Times Free Press publications including Chatter, Dining Out, Get Out Chattanooga, Live Well and Tennessee Valley Parents. She hails from Central Kentucky where she began her writing career as an alternative sports writer and where she first developed her love for the outdoors. Sunny is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and a certified Tennessee State Naturalist.
The use of alternative medicine is growing.
by Sunny MontgomeryIn 2016, Tiffany Herron asked her husband, Michael, for a DNA test for Christmas.
by Sunny MontgomeryDreaming of deluxe accommodations for your next vacation?
by Sunny MontgomeryThe latest trend doesn't require one to buy — or eat — literally anything at all (at least for a day or two each week).
by Sunny MontgomeryIs it really 2020 already? Reflections on songbirds wintering in East Tennessee.
by Sunny MontgomeryI met Santa Claus at the Hamilton Place mall office on a clear, hot, autumn day. He arrived to the boardroom sporting a white button-down and a gold-embroidered vest. In his fist, he clutched his signature red fur-trimmed hat.
by Sunny MontgomeryWithin the past three issues of Get Out, we have featured a different conservation group's newly hired executive director — and all have been women.
by Sunny MontgomerySkin-to-the-wind season may be over, but cool weather doesn't have to cost you all your summer paddling gains.
by Sunny MontgomeryZachary Cross doesn't like to fall.
by Sunny MontgomeryPrivate kayak instructor and author of "Whitewater of the Southern Appalachians," the guidebook to Southeastern whitewater paddling, Kirk Eddlemon shares his all-season gear list.
by Sunny MontgomeryFollowing our interview with the first woman to set the Appalachian Trail speed record, this month's letter reflects on women in the outdoors.
by Sunny MontgomeryFounding father Benjamin Franklin believed the wild turkey should be our national symbol.
by Sunny MontgomeryLocated next to Coolidge Park in downtown Chattanooga, Adventure Sports Innovation offers some of the latest in recreation technology — an electric surfboard and the world's first all-terrain snowboarding device, for example.
by Jennifer Bardoner and Sunny MontgomeryComfort food. Cheat meal. Guilty pleasure.
by Sunny Montgomeryin 2011, Asheville, North Carolina's Jennifer Pharr Davis became the first woman to set the Appalachian Trail speed record, helping her become named of National Geographic's 2012 "Adventurers of the Year."
by Sunny MontgomeryForty feet up against a sandstone wall, Rich Moore dangled from a rope, gripping his camera.
by Sunny MontgomerySharon Stolberg is no stranger to rough roads.
by Sunny MontgomeryThis month, the Louisiana waterthrush leaves Chattanooga to journey back to its Guatemalan wintering grounds.
by Sunny MontgomeryOutdoorspeople love to talk about their scars. And why wouldn't they?
by Sunny MontgomeryTo prepare for Gauley Fest, all year, whitewater paddlers train — both for the river and, paddlers often joke, for the after-party, which has a reputation of going all night.
by Sunny Montgomery