Rock City Gardens | Chattanooga's Iconic Attraction

Now I know where all those See Rock City birdhouses come from! We visited Rock City for the first time. This is an attraction taking advantage of nature's rock formations and adding landscaping, stone bridge and walking paths.  This is a self guided walking tour of some of the most beautiful landscapes in the country. You enter The Enchanted Trail passing beautiful gardens with an array of seasonal flowers and trees. The stone artworks (massive formations) includes a garden of piled up pebbles, a rock shaped like a mushroom, and statues along the way. The music as you go along the trail is very relaxing too. If you like lookout points, valleys, and waterfalls, you should probably see Rock City. 

The Enchanted Flagstone Trail.

This is the start of our long and fun adventure to Rock City. Once you pass through the turnstiles there's no turning back. The Trail is so narrow, and the volume of pedestrian traffic is so persistent, that you're propelled forward whether you want to be or not.

Zig-zag trail

The trail carries you onward, through Goblin's Underpass, under 1000-Ton Balanced Rock, and into the Hall of the Mountain King.

Then passing needle's eye  path, you have to slide yourself sideways to get to the other side. Challenging but we had a great time.

Then to the Swing-a-Long-Bridge it hangs suspended over a deep gorge, and it's fun to bounce up and down as the nervous people behind you look for a way out.

The views from the bridge are breathtaking!

Finally, footsore and perhaps a little winded, you find yourself at the entrance to Fairyland Caverns. Fairyland Caverns is Frieda's masterpiece, where Rock City abandons the real world and ventures into its own wobbly realm of fantasy.

The Fairy Land

The mushroom rock

The FairyLand

Our last stop to complete this wonderful journey is the Lookout Mountain Georgia.

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