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Point Park includes some of Lookout Mountain's finest views and leads to historic Point Lookout, the mountain's northernmost promontory. Point Lookout lies one-quarter mile away, about a five-minute walk, and the trail ends at the Ochs Overlook and Museum, a stone structure atop rocky cliffs with panoramic views of Chattanooga and the Tennessee River 1,300 feet below. The park preserves strategic high ground captured by Union soldiers during the Battle of Lookout Mountain in 1863 and today forms part of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. Its centerpiece, the New York Peace Monument, symbolizes the reconciliation of North and South, and James Walker's original 30-foot-long painting of the Battle of Lookout Mountain is exhibited at the visitor center across the street.
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Lookout Mountain, Tennessee · United States
