Warner Park is a 48-acre park to the north of Chattanooga National Cemetery that has a long and varied history as a site for recreation. Warner Park is now home to the Chattanooga Zoo which occupies 13 acres of the park and has recently come under investigation by the USDA for a series of animal deaths. Other amenities at the park include softball facilities, a fitness center, a pool and a city recycling center. Recent renovations to the park have added stormwater management infrastructure to help mitigate the overflow of stormwater into the sanitary sewer system during storm events. These facilities are located under several large parking lots and also take the form of three large, deep, detention basins that prevent access to large areas of the site. Warner Park lacks the feeling of a "park" because there are few open, unprogrammed spaces and the scenery is dominated by athletic facilities and hardscape. Warner Park is surrounded by commercial and light industrial operations. The area between Warner Park and the cemetery is a random assortment of commercial and residential uses with several large parking lots and vacant land.
Chattanooga National Cemetery is a 112-acre site that was designated a cemetery after the Civil War. The site rises to a 100 feet in the center with picturesque views to Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain and the surrounding neighborhoods.
Until the mid-1960's, Montague Park operated as a landfill. From 1975, the 41-acre site existed as a softball park, but closed in 2003 because of leaking methane gas. Several acres of the site will require three feet of compacted soil for successful capping. Currently, the site contains little more than a single tree. It is relatively flat and the scale of the site combined with its openness leave the space completely undifferentiated. The northern edge of Montague Park is bounded by railroad tracks, just south of the Cypress Corners artist complex, industrial and commercial operations on Main Street and patches of residential use.