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Lovers' Leap as it Looks Today
LOVER'S
SKY BRIDGE
LEAP
VIEWS IN ROCK CITY GARDENS
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Lookout Mountain
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PUBLISHED FOR ROCK CITY GARDENS, LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN
ROCK CITY GARDENS – The Enchanted Trail
• On Lookout Mountain there is a natural
city of rocks that has been attracting visitors
for more than two centuries. It embraces
about ten acres of unusual formation of lichen-
covered sandstone rocks. Narrow "streets,'
"alleys" and passage-ways gracefully wind
through Nature's wondrous "houses of stone."
• The Enchanted Trail, 4000 feet in length,
carries its guests through tunnels, over bridges,
on to the heights and down through the nar-
row crevices, many of which exceed a depth
of 100 feet. The Trail, a path four feet wide,
surfaced with smooth flag stone, makes ac-
cessible, in all kinds of weather, every nook,
cranny and crevice in this weirdly beautiful
Rock City.
Bridges are arranged for passage from
one high bluff to another, spanning the
chasms of beauty and charm.
Among the points of interest along the
Trail are the Grand Corridor-a passage-way
300 feet long and 10 to 20 feet wide, deep
down between two high bluffs-Needle's Eye,
Mushroom Rock, Gnome's Overpass, Goblin's
Underpass, Lion's Den, Shelter Rock, across
Sky Bridge to Lovers' Leap-(the view from
which is unsurpassed)-Tortoise Shell Rock,
and we wiggle through Fat Man's Squeeze,
thence to the wonderful 1000-ton Balance
Rock, and the Hall-of-the-Mountain King. At
the Moonshine Still, is a natural grotto, the
jolly gnomes "brew their mountain dew."
Near the end of the Magic Valley, Galoochee,
the wicked stone Witch, "smokes her pipe
and smiles."
• Many gnomes serve as guides, stationed
at points of interest along the Trail.
• Rock City Gardens is not only of great
interest to geologists but to botanists as well.
• Hundreds of varieties of native wild
flowers, shrubs, and trees have been added
in nature's own way so cleverly that the
Garden Club of America awarded its bronze
Medal of Distinction for conservation and
horticultural achievement to Mr. and Mrs.
Garnet Carter, Owners and Developers.
