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Rock City, Lookout Mountain, GA

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Rock City

Follow a garden trail through rock formations to Lover's Leap, a swinging bridge and Fairyland Caverns.

1400 Patten Rd · Lookout Mountain, GA

About Rock City

Rock City sits atop Lookout Mountain, 1,700 feet above sea level, and has been open to the public since 1932. You take a self-guided walk of about 4,100 feet through gardens and huge rock formations, across the Swing-A-Long bridge to Lover's Leap, where a 100-foot waterfall drops and a plaque invites you to see seven states. Fairyland Caverns adds blacklight-lit sculptures. Its "See Rock City" barn ads were once painted in 19 states.

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