After breakfast at the hotel (the kids favorite!) we headed to Rock City. It was going to be super hot and humid so we didn't dawdle at the hotel. I am sooo glad we went when we did. By the time we were through there were a lot more people and it was already in the mid 90's.
The barns I talked about. They sell little birdhouse barns like this. I thought about getting one, but passed.
Fat mans squeeze.
Nice face Cedar!
One of the bridges.
The wooden bridge. Cedar wanted to run across.
The view from Lovers leap.
Pointing out all seven states that you can see from here and how far away they are.
The kids standing on the states that they were born in.
We were suckered into the climbing wall.
The overhang below Lovers leap.
They had little trolls (like on Travelocity) behind the bars. They were all over the place.
Inside "Fairyland" It starts out inside an actual cave, or rock crevice...
All the stuff is glued on the walls and ceilings. There were coral and shells and cave formations. It started off kinda neat...
We wove around and somehow ended in a building (that was disguising itself as a cave) where there were all of these mother goose displays. They were painted neon and lit with black lights. The first few were ok, but as they went on got progressively freakier. (Sorry, no pictures.) It ended in Mother Goose Land. A big room that you walk around the display of all of the nursery rhymes. All neon and black lights. That was really, um, interesting.
That was the end, and of course, we ended by going through the gift shop.
So what is Rock City? It started out as someones house and property. The wife (Can't remember her name) loved the rocks and how they were formed on her property. She took string to mark out a path through her "garden." She made bridges, paved the ground and put in landscaping. (this was all 100 years ago.)
Rock City reminds me a little of Red Cliffs. There are big boulders, slabs of rock and sides of mountains making little trails and natural "areas." The difference is that it is very green. The landscaping is beautiful, the bridges are really neat. Big rock bridges are all over. And that wooden bridge was super fun.
From start to finish Rock City is about a mile's walk. You go between rocks, over the trails you just went through, through cracks and crevices, and onto majestic views. All ending up at the "Fairy Land." (Which I think I've said enough about.)
When we were driving home we talked bout all that we had seen. I think that the consensus is that we have been spoiled growing up so near the amazing natural wonders that surround us in the west. Rock city was neat, but nothing compared to Zion or Red Cliffs. (Both of which were fresh in my mind.) The other striking difference is how UN-comercialized the parks in the west are compared to the sites we saw.
The entrance fees were not super high, but for only being there an hour and a half, seemed a bit steep. They also seemed to try too hard sometimes to enhance the beauty of something that was already gorgeous.
So, to top it off. I'm glad we went. If anyone wants to come out and see it, we will take you there, but, we probably won't make it a yearly visit.
3 comments:
I love your blog posts. They are always so interesting. I happened to tune into the History Detectives last night and they were talking about Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain during the Civil War. Did you go there, too?
Remind the kids that they loved the bridges at Disney World--loved to run across the suspension and barrel bridges and feel the swaying and movement. Wish we were there!
There is beauty everywhere. But we are a little spoiled here in the west with Yellowstone/Tetons to the north and all of Southern Utah/Zions/Bryce/Grand Canyon to the south, and Mt. Timpanogos right out our living room window. This, however, looks like a fun outing for a summer afternoon. And it looks so so so GREEN!
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