Fasten
your seat belt and get ready to fulfill your “need
for speed.” In addition to our suggested itineraries,
check out our calendar
of events to find other activities taking place during
your visit.
1.
OFF TO THE RACES! —
Morning:
• Start your engines with a morning behind the diver’s
seat. Go for the checkered flag on the go-cart track at
Sir Gooney’s
fun center. The fun center has a variety of tracks:
Thunder Dome, a family track and a kiddie track. Losers
buy lunch.
Afternoon:
• Take a short drive (and obey posted speed limits)
into downtown Chattanooga. Visit the Tennessee
Aquarium IMAX 3D Theater and put yourself in the driver's
seat. Experience the heart-pounding thrill of stock cars
racing at speeds of up to 200 mph. NASCAR
3D: The IMAX Experience provides an insider's
perspective of the nation's number-one spectator sport.
Viewers are thrust into the thrilling spectacle that is
NASCAR today and get rare behind-the-scenes glimpses and
gripping footage of the unpredictable action on the track.
Have lunch at one of the downtown eateries. Big
River has a kid-friendly menu, while CheeBurger
CheeBurger serves kids’ meals in trays shaped
like classic cars.
Evening:
• It’s a short drive from Chattanooga to Cleveland
where you can part in America’s favorite spectator
sport at the Cleveland
Motor Speedway. The Cleveland Speedway is a 1/3-mile
clay-banked dirt track oval car racing facility. The speedway
has been around for more than twenty-five (25) years and
since it's conception has grown into one of the South’s
premiere dirt track racing facility.
2.
FOR CAR FANATICS —
Morning:
• Start your day at the Tennessee
Aquarium IMAX 3D Theater and put yourself in the driver's
seat. Experience the heart-pounding thrill of stock cars
racing at speeds of up to 200 mph. NASCAR
3D: The IMAX Experience provides an insider's
perspective of the nation's number-one spectator sport.
Viewers are thrust into the thrilling spectacle that is
NASCAR today and get rare behind-the-scenes glimpses and
gripping footage of the unpredictable action on the track.
Have lunch at one of the downtown restaurants.
Afternoon:
• Head down Broad Street from the IMAX Theater to
learn more about the “behind-the-scenes” workhorses
in the racing world - the tow trucks. Walk among early
towing and recovery history in the International
Towing & Recovery Hall of Fame and Museum. Enjoy
restored antique wreckers and equipment, industry related
displays of collectible toys, tools, unique equipment,
and pictorial histories of manufacturers who pioneered
a worldwide industry. Chattanooga, Tennessee was chosen
as the museum's home because the industry’s first
wrecker was fabricated in Chattanooga.
Evening:
• After dinner, apply what you learned by putting
yourself in the driver’s seat. Check out the go-cart
racing action at Sir
Goony’s fun center. Go for the checkered flag
and try out the center’s variety of tracks: Thunder
Dome, a family track and a kiddie track.
3.
FOR TRUE "SPEED DEMONS" —
Morning:
• Get your motor running at the Tennessee
Aquarium IMAX 3D Theater presentation of “NASCAR.”
Experience the heart-pounding thrill of stock cars racing
at speeds of up to 200 mph. NASCAR
3D: The IMAX Experience provides an insider's
perspective of the nation's number-one spectator sport.
Viewers are thrust into the thrilling spectacle that is
NASCAR today and get rare behind-the-scenes glimpses and
gripping footage of the unpredictable action on the track.
Have
lunch at one of the downtown eateries. Big
River has a kid-friendly menu, while CheeBurger
CheeBurger serves kids’ meals in trays shaped
like classic cars.
Afternoon:
• Check out the thrill rides at Lake
Winnepesaukah, just a short drive from downtown Chattanooga.
Get on board Wild Lightnin’, test your nerves on
the Cannonball roller coaster or face your fear on the
Paratrooper.
Evening:
• It’s a short drive from Chattanooga to Cleveland
where you can part in America’s favorite spectator
sport at the Cleveland
Motor Speedway. The Cleveland Speedway is a 1/3-mile
clay-banked dirt track oval car racing facility. The speedway
has been around for more than twenty-five (25) years and
since it's conception has grown into one of the South’s
premiere dirt track racing facility.
