Attractions

Rock City Gardens

Lookout Mountain, GA · Northwest Georgia$$Adults $43, kids 3 to 12 $33 at the window; less online

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A walking trail threads between towering ancient sandstone formations atop Lookout Mountain, past the 100-foot Mushroom Rock, across the swaying Swing-A-Long Bridge, and out to Lover's Leap, where on a clear day you can pick out seven states from a single overlook. The path ends underground in Fairyland Caverns, a series of black-lit dioramas of nursery-rhyme scenes built in the 1940s. Opened to the public in 1932, it is the attraction behind the barn-roof slogan that spread across the South: See Rock City.

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Getting there

1400 Patten Road, Lookout Mountain, GA 30750

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