Name of Garden:
Reflection Riding Arboretum & Botanical Garden
History and Description:
Mission
Reflection Riding is a 300-acre arboretum, botanical garden, and historic site dedicated to the study and conservation of native plant life that, through its unique landscape, provides opportunities for education, reflection and healing for people of all ages.
Definition of a Riding
... elegance is the peculiar excellence of a garden; greatness of a park; simplicity of a farm; and pleasantness of a riding... planted with properly chosen and grouped trees... the main route should wind along in a pleasant and varied way... the scenes... through which it proceeds without stopping... as natural as possible.
(Osvald Siren, China and the Gardens of Europe of the Eighteenth Century Thomas Whatley 1770) Cooley
Address:
Reflection Riding Arboretum & Botanical Garden
400 Garden Road, Chattanooga, TN 37419
(423) 821-9582 - Phone
Directions:
Reflection Riding is located just ten minutes from downtown Chattanooga. Take I-24 west toward Nashville/Birmingham. Exit at Brown's Ferry Road (Exit 175) and make a left at the traffic light (toward Lookout Mountain). At the next traffic light (Cummings Highway), turn left. Proceed a little less than a mile and take the first right following the signs for Reflection Riding and the Chattanooga Nature Center .
Admission and Hours:
Monday-Saturday 9 am to 5 pm
Sunday 1 pm to 5pm (April through October
Please note that the last time to drive through Reflection Riding is 4:30 pm as gates close at 5 pm
Cost of admission to Reflection Riding is $6 per car (OR) paid admission to the Chattanooga Nature Center includes guest visitation to Reflection Riding.
FRIENDS contributors to Reflection Riding receive an identification card, which allows them admission-free access to the Riding annually.
Website:
http://www.reflectionriding.org/index.html |
