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Chattanooga, TN

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We recently spent time at Moccasin Bend in Chattanooga, capturing ground photography for our client, Gresham Smith. With evidence of more than 12,000 years of continuous human habitation, the Moccasin Bend National Archeological District is one of the most unique places in the National Park System.

The new connector greenway gives runners and cyclists a safe way to reach the district, linking popular routes in town to the two National Park Service trails on the Bend. Our job was to show it the way people actually use it: on foot, on two wheels and out in the sunshine.

Cyclists and runners on the new greenway at the entrance to the Moccasin Bend National Archeological District.

Native wildflower plantings line the path between the road and the trail.

12,000 years of history

Moccasin Bend has one of the longest archaeological records anywhere in the National Park Service. People have lived here from the Paleo-Indian period on, and the land holds traces of everything from early villages and mound-building societies to the Trail of Tears and the Civil War. Today it is part of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park.

That history is why the National Park Service sign shows up in so many of these shots. We wanted every photo to say where you are, with the open fields of the district on one side and the mountains rising in the background.

Runner on the greenway beside the Moccasin Bend National Archeological District sign in Chattanooga

from the ground and from the air

Most of this shoot happened at ground level, following runners and cyclists along the new path, the native wildflower plantings and the fresh concrete. To show the crossings and refuge islands in context, we sent the drone up for a few shots looking down the corridor.

Mixing the two gives Gresham Smith a full picture of the project, from the human scale to the big picture. That combination is what our ground photo and video and aerial photography services are built for. Have a project in Chattanooga or anywhere in the Southeast? Get in touch for a quote.

Drone view of a pedestrian refuge island and crosswalk on the Moccasin Bend connector greenway in Chattanooga

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