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🆕 What’s New on the Thrift Trail: November 2026
The Chattanooga Thrift Trail started as a map and a route. In its first weeks it has grown into a full trip planner, with more shops, more details on every card and a few surprises. Here is a quick tour of what is new, written for anyone who has not visited since the start.
Coffee stops are now part of your route
Tap ☕ Add a coffee stop and pick from up to three open coffee shops on the way to your next shop, with the moderators’ favorites first. Add one and it becomes a real stop in your route. It gets its own pin and a coffee-brown card, it sits in the route line, and its driving distance and time are included in your miles and timing. It does not count as a thrift stop, so your shop numbers stay clean.
Add your own stops
A thrift day rarely happens on its own. ➕ Add Your Own Stop puts an errand, lunch or an appointment into the route, in the spot that makes the most sense, and shows about when to leave if you set a time. Your own stops stay on your device and clear themselves the next day.
A route that keeps up with you
- One big button. The big button at the top continues to your next unvisited shop. Tap it for the next shop, double-tap to undo, or hold it for directions.
- Visited shops tuck away. Tick a shop as visited and it moves into a tidy list, while the rest of the route re-plans from where you are.
- Two loops. The Lookout Loop is the bigger route. The Scenic City Loop stays in Tennessee. Use Filter to pick a loop, an area or a type of shop, and to see what is open late.
- Open badges. Each shop shows whether it is open now and warns you when it is about to close.
More details on every shop card
Shop cards now carry the details people ask about most, such as restrooms, wheelchair access, how a shop takes payment and a rough price level. A detail only appears when we have it. Shop managers can send updates through the Shop Managers form, and the Trail changes as they do.
New shops and updated shops
- Signal Mountain. St. Timothy’s Thrift Shop, The Clothes House and Bachman Bargain Barn joined the Trail.
- Chattanooga Room in the Inn Thrift Store. It now sits on both main loops, next door to Goodwill in East Ridge.
- East Ridge Antique District. Most of the district has closed, so the card now lists the three shops still open there, each with its own hours and website: Sugar Plum Antiques & Treasures, Rusted Rooster Antiques & Decor, and Chattanooga Olive Oil Company & Artisan Village.
- Coming in 2027. Savers and KARM Thrift are on the way to Hixson. They are noted on the Shops & Charities page and will join the map when they open.
The Trail now maps 48 thrift, vintage and antique shops around Chattanooga.
The Arcade
The Trail has an Arcade with two games built around Chattanooga. 423 Thrift Rush sends you through a thrift shop to find items and get them to the register before the junk gets you, across five levels that each get harder. Thrift Trail Rally is a driving game on the real roads of the Trail, with shops as checkpoints. It is a fun way to learn the loop before you drive it.
Community Calendar
The Community Calendar is a month view of thrift days, yard sales and local events. Anyone can submit an event, including shops that want to announce a sale.
Thrift tip: Visited a while ago? Open the Trail again. Most of what is on this list was not there when you last looked.
There will be a new Trail News post every month, covering what has improved and which shops have joined.
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