[Illustration: _Union monuments at Viniard field, Chickamauga Battlefield._] [Illustration: _Snodgrass House, Chickamauga Battlefield._ Courtesy Walter H. Miller.] The tour ends on Snodgrass Hill. To return to park headquarters and U. S. 27, please follow park headquarters signs and the yellow lines. MISSIONARY RIDGE. To reach Missionary Ridge, after leaving Chickamauga Battlefield, you should drive north 3 miles toward Chattanooga on U. S. 27 to Crest Road. A right turn on Crest Road will start you on your tour of the ridge. Crest Road runs the entire length of the line occupied by the Confederates during the Battle of Missionary Ridge. Small reservations, markers, monuments, tablets, and gun positions along the road provide information, and excellent views of Chattanooga are obtained along this drive. Moving northward the more important units of the park are: _Bragg Reservation_, where the Confederate commander had his headquarters; _Ohio Reservation_, an area set aside to commemorate the participation of Ohio troops in the battle; _DeLong Reservation_, site of one of the Union penetrations in the Confederate line; and _Sherman Reservation_, where Sherman’s forces unsuccessfully attacked the north end of the Confederate line. Sherman Reservation marks the end of Crest Road and the park on Missionary Ridge. [Illustration: _Looking north along Missionary Ridge with Chattanooga and Tennessee Rivers to the left, and the Illinois Monument at Bragg’s Headquarters site in center foreground. This point is about one-third distance from Rossville to north end of the ridge._] [Illustration: _Looking south along Missionary Ridge from DeLong Reservation._] [Illustration: CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL MILITARY PARK GEORGIA AND TENNESSEE PRINCIPAL ROADS AND STREETS BETWEEN CHATTANOOGA AND PARK AREAS] [Illustration: _Entrance to Point Park, Lookout Mountain, built to resemble Army Corps of Engineers insignia._] POINT PARK. Visitors to the Chattanooga Battlefields are urged to go first to Point Park. There, from the terrace of the Adolph S. Ochs Observatory and Museum, high above the winding Tennessee River, you will have a wide view of the battlefields. This point is acclaimed one of the finest overlooks in the South. Markers throughout the area identify important landmarks and troop positions. A National Park Service attendant is there to assist you. The observatory and museum bears the name of one of the park’s major benefactors, the late Adolph S. Ochs, Publisher of the _Chattanooga Times_ and the _New York Times_. The New York Monument, completed in 1907, is in the center of the area. The Cravens House, where part of the “Battle Above the Clouds” was fought, can be seen from the museum terrace. Near the house, stand three large monuments—New York, Iowa, and Ohio—honoring troops who were in this battle.