During the holiday months, visitors get to view Rock City Gardens of Georgia in a whole new light, when the mountain top attraction is draped in a shimmering blanket of over 500,000 Christmas bulbs.

The "Enchanted Garden of Lights" cuts Rock City's "Enchanted Trail" to half its normal length as elves, animals, and mushrooms sculpted out of holiday bulbs, dance along stone shelves.

At the midway point, a nativity blinks in synch with holiday hymns and the story of Christmas is presented every fifteen minutes. Santa waits nearby for photo opportunities.

On the final leg of the walk, people are rerouted from the attraction's normal path, probably so nobody falls off the side of the mountain in the dark, through a garden of even more and even bigger twinkling lawn sculptures (see "Candy Land" top).

The path ends, as it normally would, at "Fairyland Caverns." Rows of soldier nutcrackers stand guard outside the entrance to the cave. Inside, a florescent cast of nursery rhyme characters sport Santa caps as the hollowed chambers are piped with holiday tunes. Joy, oh joy!

Update 12/03
The Enchanted Garden of lights is bigger and brighter than ever! Back on Tack was there for the opening on November 21st when Rock City turned on the juice to more than 500,000 lights.

Select Productions International, who has worked with the likes of the NFL and Disney, created the lighting spectacular for 2003. Exhibits range from large glittering character displays to gardens of tiny flowers, all sculpted of bulbs.

Along with the new showings is a 360-foot trail expansion, which places a "multi-media light presentation" of Jesus on a quiet corner just outside of Fairland Caverns. Nearby, Visitors may even catch a glimpse of Frosty mingling with guests.

Enchanted Garden of Lights
(November to January)
Rock City Gardens
1400 Patten Road
Lookout Mountain, GA