Attraction on Lookout Mountain in Georgia that features the High Falls of the Lookout Mountain, a waterfall 140 feet (43 m) high

General Information

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Pet Policy:

Pets and their handlers shall remain on public rights-of-way within the cemetery and shall not encroach on a cemetery lot without the consent of the lot owner

Seasons:

All year

Rating:

★ 5.0

How to Get There

Overview

Rock City Gardens is a tourist attraction on Lookout Mountain in Georgia that features the High Falls of the Lookout Mountain, a manmade waterfall. The waterfall is 140 feet (43 m) high and empties into a base which appears as a small pool.

Rock City Gardens also features a long, rock trail lined with gardens containing hundreds of labelled local trees and plants. The trail also leads through a variety of unique and bizarre rock formations, including the 1,000 short tons (910 t) Balanced Rock and Fat Man's Squeeze. Two other sections, the Fairyland Caverns and Mother Goose Village, are rock caves decorated with blacklight-responsive sculptures.

The attraction gained prominence after owners Garnet and Frieda Carter hired Clark Byers in 1935 to paint "See Rock City" barn advertisements throughout the Southeast and Midwest United States; Byers painted over 900 barn roofs and walls, in nineteen states, by 1969.

Opened in May 1932, Rock City has claimed that it is possible to see seven states from a particular spot (Lover's Leap) in Rock City.

Garnet Carter's idea was to develop a residential neighborhood on top of the mountain. The neighborhood was to be named Fairyland because of his wife Frieda's interest in European folklore.

Fairyland was 700 acres (2.8 km2) and encompassed Rock City. Frieda set out to develop the property into one big rock garden, taking string and marking a trail that wound its way around the giant rock formations, ending up at Lover's Leap. She also planted wildflowers and other plants along her trails and imported German gnome statues and other famous fairytale characters, set up at spots throughout the trail. Garnet realized that Frieda had made an attraction that people would be willing to pay for to see. Garnet made Rock City a public attraction in 1932.

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "Rock City (attraction)" which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0