I recently found a list of national parks, and I'm going to start recording visits by the official designations - which means that Jamestowne and Yorktown count as a single site, even though that makes no sense to me, since there's a 150 year gap between the two sites.
But the NPS considers Chickamauga and Chattanooga a single site, so I'll go with it. Chickamauga is, by far, the more extensive site; it is in fact the largest battlefield site run by the NPS. But the site itself is - not the most interesting. Being one of the first US Civil War sites to gain much attention, back in the 1880s, there are monuments _everywhere_. Which are nice - but they also get in the way of showing the story of the battle. The visitor center is fantastic, though, and while the battle was not the most interesting, it was important enough to keep interest.
The Chattanooga site, on the other hand, is fantastic. Small - it's at the top of lookout mountain, which seemed to have a _lot_ of million dollar homes. The incline railway up the mountain is a fantastic ride - with a maximum angle of 72.7 degrees, it's a steeper ride than most roller coasters, but at slow speed. And the views from Point Park, the NPS site, are _amazing_. With Megan's ankle bothering her, only Ben and I went to the visitor center and Point Park, so we didn't spend as long there as we might have liked. But I can't imagine returning to Chattanooga with Megan, and not riding the incline railway again.
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