Rock City is a roadside attraction near Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Lookout Mountain in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, located near Ruby Falls. Rock City features a long, convoluted rock trail lined with gardens containing hundreds of labeled local trees and plants. The trail also leads through a variety of bizarre rock formations, including the 1000-ton Balanced Rock and the Fat Man's Squeeze.
This is at least the 4th time the two RV Gypsies have
been to Rock City, but the first time for Karen Duquette's sister, Ilse
Blahak. (Karen and Lee Duquette used to live in Chattanooga, TN for
two years. Maybe someday, those Flashbacks might get posted on this
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Below: The menu at the restaurant
looked like it would be good food, but it was way back towards the end
of the park, and everyone was already hungry, so they settled for Big
Rock Grill inside Rock City. They sat on the tables outside because
it was even hotter inside than outside. The food was not very good.
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Below: Lee Duquette in the Grand Corridor
at Rock City. |
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Below: Lee Duquette in Needle's Eye |
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Below: Gnome Valley in Rock Creek - can
you see the little gnomes in the photos below? |
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Below: Ilse Blahak under Mushroom Rock |
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Below: GNOMES Overpass at Rock City |
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Below: Lee Duquette looked down at GNOMES Overpass - and a close-up
of what he saw - another walk bridge. |
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Below: Ilse Blahak at Goblins Underpass |
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Below: Flowers near Goblins Underpass
at Rock City |
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Below: Shelter Rock in Rock City |
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Below: Swing-A-Long Bridge at Rock City |
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Below: Approaching Lover's Leap and the
waterfall known as High Falls. |
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| Legend states that a Native American man who loved a woman from a rival tribe was thrown from the lookout when his love was discovered. |
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Below: Ilse Blahak photographed
the two RV Gypsies at Lover's Leap - Neither one felt the need to jump
and they do NOT recommend that anyone does either! NO, NO, AND MORE
NO!!!! |
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Below: Then Karen Duquette
photographed Ilse Blahak where she was standing when she took the above
photos. |
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Below: Views from Lover's
Leap showing where the two RV Gypsies have already walked on this date
at Rock City. |
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Below: Faces (side profiles) in the cliff
below Lover's Leap |
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Below: The flag of each of the seven
states seen from Lover's Leap and the Seven States Flag court, plus
seven USA Flags.
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| The publicity and lore claim that it is possible to see seven states from Lover's Leap, a point in Rock City, but this has not been proven scientifically. The patio below shows a layout of the seven states. |
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Below are photos from the base of the 7 state flags. More than one side had information printed on it, but because of the type of stone material the bases were made out of, some were hard to read. |
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Below: View from the outside tables at the restaurant at Rock City - and some
nearby flowers. |
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A Rock Climbing Wall at Rock City
(an extra charge if you want to climb it). |
Ilse Blahak inside the Rock City birdhouse |
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The two RV Gypsies and Karen Duquette's sister, Ilse Blahak at the Rock City Gardens |
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Below: FAT MAN'S SQUEEZE AT ROCK CITY |
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Below: Deer (including a white deer)
at Rock City |
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Below: Looking back and up at the swinging bridge the two RV Gypsies walked over earlier. |
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The Balanced Rock as seen from just before Observation Point. We are working our way to there. |
Lover's Leap and High Falls
as seen from Observation Point
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Below: Rainbow Hall. Colored windows
make a rainbow reflection of the rocky walls. |
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Below: Just before the Under-Cliff
Passage, Ilse and Karen got another view of Lovers Leap and High Falls. |
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Below: Lee Duquette entering "Under-Cliff Passage" at Rock
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Below: Rock City's 1,000 Ton Balanced Rock |
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Below: Continuing
on the path, the two RV Gypsies peered down into the Cave of the Winds
(it is not a path people can walk through though) |
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Below: The Stone Witch |
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Rock City ends with a section
called Magic Valley, Fairyland Caverns and Mother Goose Village
with rock caves that are decorated with blacklight-responsive sculptures.
Karen Duquette did not photograph this section because those photos
are already on this website and can be seen through
this link. which will take you to Rock City in 2011. A link at the
bottom of the 2011 page will bring you back here, so you can continue
with the other sections at the bottom of this page. |
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BELOW: Something new since the two RV Gypsies' visit in 2011 - FREE WINE TASTING. So Ilse Blahak and Karen Duquette enjoyed partaking of the wine. But it was all sweet wine, so they did not buy any. Lee Duquette never drinks anymore, and he never did like wine anyway. |
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Below: The water wheel that can be seen
at the beginning and end of the trail at Rock City. |
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