Black Creek

Black Creek is a master-planned residential community in Lookout Valley, inside the city of Chattanooga and Hamilton County. MLS listings use the subdivision name Black Creek Chattanooga, the city of Chattanooga, and ZIP 37419. A Chattanooga Times Free Press report from April 23, 2022, measured the drive from the Tennessee Aquarium to the club entrance at 4700 Cummings Cove Drive as 8.1 miles, or about 15 to 20 minutes depending on traffic. That report places Lookout Valley between Lookout Mountain and the Tennessee River on the east, Raccoon Mountain on the west, and the Georgia line on the south. A Tennessee golf directory lists the club at that Cummings Cove address, at the base of Raccoon Mountain. The club's own site, checked in November 2026, lists 2934 River Gorge Drive, also in 37419, as its contact address. A 2026 listing for 4787 Amethyst Road approaches from Interstate 24 at Exit 174, then Birmingham Highway, Cummings Road, and River Gorge Drive.

The community site says Black Creek has been welcoming neighbors since 2000, and that Phase 13 of the master plan is underway. The same site describes the setting as thousands of acres of protected land. That is the developer's description of the landscape around the neighborhoods, not a surveyed acreage for any one lot. The golf directory says the 18-hole course opened in September 2000, designed by Brian Silva, and calls it Silva's first original project in the Southeast. The club's golf page says the course runs 7,204 yards and that Silva took cues from Charles Blair Macdonald and Seth Raynor. The directory lists the back tees at 7,044 yards. Use the scorecard the club hands you, not a number copied from a webpage.

The community's real-estate pages name several sections. The Ridges is described as sold out: cottages on a pair of cul-de-sacs at the base of Aetna Mountain. The Garrison is described as limited, with wooded backyards. The Knoll is described as limited, with valley views. The Pass is described as available, the first and second phase of a mountaintop section, and the custom-homes page places it on Aetna Mountain overlooking Chattanooga. Those sections are part of Black Creek. They are not River Gorge Ranch, the separate Guild community with its own page. Rowland Development Group, a builder with an office on Kellys Ferry Road in 37419, also markets custom homes in The Pass. The community site says a reserved homesite is to be built on within three years, under architectural standards. Read the section, the plat, and that deadline for the parcel in front of you.

The course and the house are separate. The community map marks the 18-hole course, the fitness center, and Black Creek Club as club-member amenities. The same map lists a trail system of over 15 miles, fishing ponds it describes as stocked with bass, bluegill, and other sport fish, and a dog park, without that member marker. The club's golf page publishes a golf membership and a social membership. As described there, the social level covers the fitness center, pools, racquet courts, and the restaurant and bar, and does not include the course. Ask the club what a specific purchase includes, and ask which sections may use the trails and ponds. A 2026 listing in the subdivision printed a monthly HOA fee. That figure belongs to that listing.

This page does not print asking prices. A number copied from one listing day goes stale, and a homesite is not a finished house. Public listing pages reviewed in November 2026 show single-family houses filed in the Black Creek Chattanooga subdivision, in Chattanooga ZIP 37419, including homes still marketed for sale and homes under contract. The live search lower on this page uses the city of Chattanooga, which is the city the MLS assigns to these properties, and it also returns other Chattanooga listings that are not in Black Creek.

Public schools are Hamilton County Schools. A 2026 listing for 4787 Amethyst Road, subdivision Black Creek Chattanooga, names Lookout Valley Elementary School, Lookout Valley Middle School, and Lookout Valley High School. That is the listing sheet, not a boundary map. Assignment follows the house address, and the district can redraw it. Use the Hamilton County Schools zone finder before you rely on those fields. Nothing on the community site reviewed in November 2026 describes Black Creek as age-restricted. A private-community directory labels it all ages. School assignment still follows the address.