Enchanted Garden of Lights
Enchanted Garden of Lights
Nov 18- Dec 31, 2012
Lookout Mountain, GA
Nov 18- Dec 31, 2012
Lookout Mountain, GA
Lookout Mountain straddles the northwest corner of Georgia, the northeast corner of Alabama, and the southern border of Tennessee, and it stands tall enough for a visitor to see all three states at once. One of several towns on the mountain is the town that bears its name. And as the locals all know very well, Lookout Mountain, Georgia, boasts an attraction unlike any other.
Rock City Gardens
At the top of Lookout Mountain, only six miles from downtown Chattanooga, sits Rock City Gardens. . It offers views that can take the breath from the most hardened, cynical world traveler, and its gardens contain over 400 native species of plant. The well-marked “Enchanted Trail” that winds through the park is nearly a mile long (just right for an hour’s walk), and the unfathomable age of its gigantic rock formations is humbling to contemplate (they are estimated to be over 200 million years old). Wildlife abounds, including white fallow deer and magnificent birds of prey. Legend has it you can see seven states from the summit of Lookout Mountain, although in reality, the curvature of the Earth limits the view to “only” four (Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and North Carolina). Four states visible from 1,700 feet above sea level is quite spectacular!
But Rock City is at its most enchanting during the winter holiday season, when becomes an “Enchanted Garden of Lights.”
The Enchanted Garden of Lights
From late November until the end of December, the entire park is lit every night with millions of Christmas lights, which transform this wonder of nature into a Christmastime fairy-tale. The light arrangements create thirty different holiday scenes and images, and the Enchanted Trail leads you past places with such whimsical names as Fairyland Caverns and Mother Goose Village . The trees all sparkle, and life-sized gingerbread houses are made entirely of light—as sure to lure your children in as the original fairy-tale house, with one important difference: at Rock City there is no wicked witch waiting in the house to cook the kids and eat them! Top off the tour with nightly entertainment and warm cocoa by the fire, while children get Sugar Plum Fairy Makeovers and decorate gingerbread cookies. And as if all that weren’t magical enough, in 2011 Rock City added a new attraction to the Enchanted Garden of Lights: Dinner with Santa! The Candy Cane Elves greet visitors and escorted you to a dinner no child will ever forget.