Chattanooga Anniversary 2010 - Rock City

We decided for our anniversary, April 10th, we would go up to Chattanooga, TN to see some new things. Specifically we planned to see the Lookout Mountain attractions. We started with Rock City, which was very interesting. Basically it’s a bunch of rocks that you walk through. There are some cool parts, where you are slinking your way through two huge boulders, but there are also some super strange things like Fairyland Caverns and Mother Goose Village; it’s a good thing they save the super strange things until the end.

There was this crazy guy chainsaw carving these huge trees. I think he made some furniture and things.


Sweet Bog Garden!
There were lots of pretty flowers

Then there are a few things that aren’t so pretty:

Here is Fat Man Squeeze:



I took tons of pictures in Fairyland Caverns because it was totally bizarre. Check it out in my Picasa album:

Fairyland

You can also see more pictures of Mother Goose Village, which was also very bizarre.

Overall Rock City was worth seeing, once. Walking through the rocks and seeing the scenery was nice, but there were plenty of weirdo things involved that made it not awesome. They had plenty of “unnatural” plantings around on the rocks, the waterfall was also man made, and they had a track of ambient woodland sounds playing when you initially walk through the rock garden. It’s very touristy. We experienced the difference between a National or State run park/attraction and a privately owned one, including Ruby Falls, which you’ll see soon.