Tracy City


 * Not to be confused with the much larger city in California.

Tracy City is a town of 1,400 people (2019) in Grundy County in central Tennessee. There are many hills, rock faces, and beautiful streams in the countryside surrounding Tracy City. The town is built around a few streams that flow through its limits.

Understand
It's along US Route 41 near Interstate Route 24 in Central Tennessee, a region of the South that is, for the most part, thickly forested.

History
Tracy City was incorporated in 1915, and named after financier Samuel Franklin Tracy. The city developed out of railroad and mining interests after coal was found in 1840. In 2010 the people of Tracy City elected a dead man, Carl Robin Geary, as mayor.

Get in
U.S. 41 connects Tracy City with Jasper and Monteagle, and Tennessee Route 56 connects Tracy City with Coalmont and Altamont.

See
'There are many beautiful waterfalls near Tracy City because it is on the edge of the Appalachians, and many canyons dramatically cut their way through the side of the mountain range. However, the canyons themselves are hard to view because the region is thickly forested in most places.

Although you might expect to see a lot of historic houses in the South, Tracy City was founded in the early 20th century, so there are not many historic buildings.



Do
The most well-known hike in the Tracy City area is the Fiery Gizzard Trail.



Buy
Most of the restaurants and stores in the town are between Colyar Street and Railroad Avenue, although there is a shopping mall in the east. The main supermarket near the center of Tracy City is a Dollar General store.



Lodging
There are no hotels or motels in Tracy City, so if you want anything close to luxury as a place to sleep, go to Kimball, Monteagle, or Chattanooga. However, there are multiple lodging services in Tracy City.



Camping
For those who want to camp in this area, go to the southern end of the Fiery Gizzard Trail, where there is at least one campground.



Go next

 * Chattanooga had a strategic location during the Civil War near the Deep South between the Alabama-Mississippi region and the Carolinas. It is to the southeast.
 * Manchester is a small city northwest of Tracy City that is near the Old Stone Fort Archaeological Park.
 * Monteagle is a few miles west of Tracy City. There are more hotels and motels in Monteagle than there are in Tracy City because Monteagle is close to Interstate Route 24.