Rock City - Changes and New Additions to The Classic Roadside Attraction - Lookout Mountain, GA

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  • @astrokoneko
    @astrokoneko Рік тому +1

    One of the good things about living in Tennessee is that you go there on field trips in school

  • @sugarpillz
    @sugarpillz Рік тому +41

    My dad took my brother and I to Rock City/Lookout Mountain when I was about 6. I picked out a souvenir t-shirt way back then and have managed to keep it for 29 years now. ❤️

  • @vickymorriskeen5817
    @vickymorriskeen5817 Рік тому +10

    Your friend was a phenomenal tour guide! Would love to listen to his stories while exploring Rock City

  • @DjStolly32
    @DjStolly32 Рік тому +1

    The gentlemen with you was so informative. Very enjoyable video!

  • @matthewfarmer2520
    @matthewfarmer2520 Рік тому +13

    Carpetbagger i like the older man your with, hes like your tour guide, he seems nice a gentleman 😊 thanks for sharing he shows you around.

  • @JessMegJolly
    @JessMegJolly Рік тому +4

    My fiancé and I moved to Chattanooga about 4 years ago and I’ve been to Rock City several times and there was so much I didn’t know until seeing this vid!

  • @vickiesharp4357
    @vickiesharp4357 Рік тому +1

    My husband and I got married at Rock City in 2004.

  • @alyssamims4818
    @alyssamims4818 Рік тому +24

    My ideal vacation is always a “Carpetbagger trip”, so my husband took me to see Rock City. After that, I had dreams about running into THE Carpetbagger while on my own adventures. You’re the best, Jacob.

  • @crush41gb
    @crush41gb Рік тому +3

    This was great and I really appreciated his LOTR reference! 😉

  • @debi1451
    @debi1451 Рік тому +2

    Rock City is really beautiful!.

  • @jennlynnechancey
    @jennlynnechancey Рік тому +1

    Love Lookout Mountain and Rock City! Went there many times as a child and then have taken my daughter as an adult.

  • @Productions427
    @Productions427 Рік тому +3

    Man this definitely brings back memories for me. My family used to stop in Chattanooga “on the way” to Florida, and this was one of our favorite places there.

  • @BuckarooBanzai84
    @BuckarooBanzai84 Рік тому +2

    That place looks FANTASTIC!!! I wish I could see it myself... And congrats to Rod on your geek-cred! Those are some deep-cut Tolkien and comic-book-refs! ; )

  • @viviennemorgan7217
    @viviennemorgan7217 Рік тому

    i love all the fairytales and nursery rhymes.

  • @oliverstephens6191
    @oliverstephens6191 Рік тому

    We love rod (the tour guide)

  • @karentucker2161
    @karentucker2161 Рік тому +1

    This is one place I've been wanting to go to for years thank you for showing this video.

  • @hogluvr1
    @hogluvr1 Рік тому +1

    This place is amazing! Been there a few times, and have brought friends there. When they ask what it is, I'm hard pressed to describe it accurately. Simply amazing, is my typical response. Can't wait to take the "grands" there.

  • @whodatpat504
    @whodatpat504 Рік тому +2

    I have been a few times and it never gets old. Jacob the gentleman with ya did a outstanding job on some of the history.

  • @bg199083
    @bg199083 Рік тому +22

    That tour guide is very interesting! I didn't know that Garnett Carter made Rock City Gardens also made the first Mini-Golf course and that 1950's Captain Marvel (Shazam) comics fight local villians in different U.S. States. Have a great day Jake! 😁😁

    • @miketwomey4923
      @miketwomey4923 Рік тому +1

      I was amazed at that fact also..

    • @bg199083
      @bg199083 Рік тому

      @@miketwomey4923 Me too Mike!

  • @MissouriPenny
    @MissouriPenny Рік тому +7

    This was one of my favorite video you've made .what a fabulous place the other guy was wonderful to have along too.welcome back to the south ❤🎉❤😊

  • @peggyc2509
    @peggyc2509 Рік тому +1

    Where the gnome in the tavern was that's replaced by a waterfall pouring onto a colorful stone looks like the stones Thanos was collecting in the Marvel Endgames movie.
    Hubby & I love Rock City. We were talking yesterday if Carpetbagger made a Rock City Vlog and then today we see your most recent Rock City Vlog 😅

  • @dianadelahaye7660
    @dianadelahaye7660 10 місяців тому

    Beautiful place! I love the different challenges and bridges. Gorgeous house. The art of mat is such a novel idea.cool caves and colored glass.

  • @warmlantern0000
    @warmlantern0000 Рік тому +1

    Always love Road Trips with Jacob.
    THE CARPETBAGGER 🚗 💨💨💨

  • @vvarietyshow
    @vvarietyshow Рік тому +4

    This is like top 5 attractions I want to visit the most.

  • @jenimcqueen7431
    @jenimcqueen7431 Рік тому

    thank you for A great video i was here 35 years ago it was so fun.

  • @kianatimothy7933
    @kianatimothy7933 Рік тому

    Loved the book all litter bugs come in all shapes and sizes. It's a good read .

  • @bassplayercliff1961
    @bassplayercliff1961 Рік тому +1

    They just repainted the barn down the road in Rydal ga.

  • @toy4x4nj
    @toy4x4nj Рік тому

    Thanks for the tour! ill put Rock City Gardens on my list of places to visit.

  • @Mamarenee88
    @Mamarenee88 Рік тому +2

    We used to go to Rock City all the time when I was younger. It's one of my favorite places. I can still smell that fairytale caverns smell... lol

  • @Kyolover8
    @Kyolover8 Рік тому +2

    The story of lover's leap is interesting and is the exact same story that is told about Yonah mountain between the towns Helen and Cleveland Georgia. Right down to the Native Americans names of Sautee and Nacoochee being the names of the lovers that perished there. That's why the area around Helen and Cleveland is called the Sautee Nacoochee valley. It's also said that the Indian Mound between the towns is where Sautee and Nacoochee were buried.

  • @Chrisssy2112
    @Chrisssy2112 Рік тому +6

    Loved your visit there and your lovely tour guide 😊

  • @OldMovieRob
    @OldMovieRob Рік тому +4

    That view from Lookout Mountain is amazing

  • @teresacantrell7400
    @teresacantrell7400 Рік тому +3

    We loved Rock City Gardens! Thanks for sharing!

  • @andrewvarney5687
    @andrewvarney5687 Рік тому +7

    What a cool place, thanks for sharing such an awesome attraction with us Jacob!!!

  • @paulfuryes203
    @paulfuryes203 Рік тому +5

    Truly a really beautiful place nice work jacob.

  • @lapetitemaison4219
    @lapetitemaison4219 Рік тому +6

    That place is too cool! Thanks Jacob for taking us on this adventure.

  • @cocoyc495
    @cocoyc495 Рік тому +2

    This place looks awesome and the tour is great. Thanks for sharing!

  • @StoneAgeProductionsAdventure
    @StoneAgeProductionsAdventure Рік тому +3

    what a marvelous road side attraction.

  • @shirleyhughes1248
    @shirleyhughes1248 Рік тому +7

    This was the most detailed video you have done, and I loved it! We watch these on our tv,I will be watching this one again and again!❤️ also tell the guy giving the tour he did great too!

  • @ShelleeGraham
    @ShelleeGraham Рік тому +3

    GREAT Rock City video! Many THANKS 🙏 to your awesome 👏 history guide, Ron.

  • @bigloaded8324
    @bigloaded8324 Рік тому

    Love the views, hate the fake waterfall.

  • @proconsumersafety
    @proconsumersafety Рік тому +3

    I never heard of this. Looks so interesting. Thank you so much for sharing. I will remember to visit when I travel in that area. Thanks again. Keep Safe!

  • @elizabethmckenna5397
    @elizabethmckenna5397 Рік тому +2

    Gosh I remember when I was traveling to Georgia to visit family, I would always see those See Rock City signage everywhere. I completely regret now that I didn’t See Rock City. Great vlog Jacob. Stay well

  • @caroleroseburgh1344
    @caroleroseburgh1344 Рік тому +1

    Good Evening Jacob 🙋🏽. Rock City is Beautiful ❤

  • @DustinBull
    @DustinBull Рік тому

    Was gunna take a drink everytime ROCK CITY was mentioned, glad I didn't do that 😂

  • @AquilaLorelei
    @AquilaLorelei Рік тому

    That last portion of the tunnel when I saw you ducking out from it I yelped the most visceral "NO!" I think I have ever spoken, only because my soul left my body about six times before that!

  • @Raees-Divitiae
    @Raees-Divitiae Рік тому +3

    OMFG! How did I not know this place of beauty existed? TY so much for this tour!

  • @timdaugherty5921
    @timdaugherty5921 Рік тому

    I saw you there !!

  • @randallshaw6190
    @randallshaw6190 Рік тому +3

    Went there in 1973, have pics looking down at deer, on suspension bridge etc... You brought back a lot of memories.

  • @danmiller6800
    @danmiller6800 Рік тому +2

    I like the piece of art the Artomat blessed you with it's very cool I want it! It's just so cool looking. It's just interesting and makes my mind go to a different place of wonder and adventure.

  • @pammontgomery9771
    @pammontgomery9771 Рік тому +3

    You need to go to Rock Garden in Calhoun Georgia. It has over 50 castles made of stones. It is beautiful

  • @doctorprepperisprepared
    @doctorprepperisprepared Рік тому +2

    I also saw some of those barns so many decades ago and my parents took us all to visit it in 1971 after a trip to Orlando for a family wedding and to visit the east coast mouse house.
    Look Out Mountain and Rock City amazed us all.

  • @TNshylady
    @TNshylady Рік тому +2

    This video was wonderful. I went in the early 90's and I really enjoyed seeing how it looks now.

  • @mrbutch308
    @mrbutch308 Рік тому +1

    My family - we were from Florida - visited Rock City way back in the middle 1960's. We loved it. We all agreed it was an enjoyable attraction and well worth the visit. A nearby attraction also on Lookout Mountain is Ruby Falls which we found a bit of a disappointment unfortunately. I remember we stayed at an old hotel (old even back then) in downtown Chattanooga called the Read House and dined in the fancy restaurant there called The Green Room.

  • @goosehunter1157
    @goosehunter1157 Рік тому +2

    Thank you so much for taking me back to my youth! First went to Rock City in 1970 when I was 4yrs old. I was last there in 2005 with my children and we still talk about how incredible Rock City is!

  • @lizlocher3612
    @lizlocher3612 Рік тому +8

    We went as a family in one of our trips to vacation in Florida my Dad took us on every year in the 1960's n 1970's, n I remember it vaguely, but going on this tour with you, Jacob, brought the entire experience into sharp realization!!! It is by far one of the most eclectic n iconic places ever immortalized in already existing natural formations, creating a two fold epic experience of our natural Earth 🌎 wonders n the ground breaking creativity of the couple that presented some of the great firsts in our daily lives!!! Awesome attraction n wonderful tour guides, including yourself, Jacob, who makes every little detail come to life to be absorbed n appreciated by the viewer!!! Thank you ever so for an enchanting Saturday afternoon, complete with black lights, magnificent colours, kaleidoscopes, witches, goblins n gnomes, as well as miniatures n fairy tales n nursery rhymes from our childhood to enchant and delight us!!!! Awesome Totally,Jacob!!! Triple Attaboys to you Carpetbagger!!! You are the master of the roadside attractions!!!

  • @mcwatersd
    @mcwatersd Рік тому +6

    Really loved hearing all the history behind Rock City . Amazes me that they could turn their garden into such a spectacular attraction. Such and interesting place . I especially like the black light area. Great tour thanks for taking us along . Keep Safe ❤Keep Well❤

  • @rocdocs
    @rocdocs Рік тому +3

    I love this place! Thanks for the look art the new stuff, I am totally bringing Baby Ball this year!

  • @marypeek4628
    @marypeek4628 27 днів тому

    Jacob, I'm so glad you are doing this. I haven't been there since I was young. A few years ago (last time was Christmas. The is so beautiful with the lights.) My grandfather's brother helped to do a lot of the men laid rock pathways.

  • @nikitatro5508
    @nikitatro5508 Рік тому +1

    Rock City is right up there with House on the Rock for places that I hope to visit someday 🌟🤩 It looks like an amazing place 🤩🙌 Thank You Jacob and Rod for giving us a wonderful tour 🙏💝😻

  • @mareekatz
    @mareekatz Рік тому +2

    LOVE when you go to Rock City ❤️ it's on my bucket list. ✌️❤️🙂

  • @kimberlyshalaby1134
    @kimberlyshalaby1134 Рік тому

    I enjoyed seeing Rock City & meeting Ron! This was awesome!

  • @CAJUNAFOL
    @CAJUNAFOL Рік тому +3

    Thank you for filming this video, it’s nice know that people in wheelchairs like me can experience this inaccessible attraction now. 😀

  • @robylove9190
    @robylove9190 Рік тому +4

    This is a very interesting place. Since I don't get around well, this is the only way I get to enjoy beautiful places like this. Thanks for taking us on your journey, Jacob ❤️

  • @59thsurvivorofvhs
    @59thsurvivorofvhs Рік тому +2

    42:22 What I have gathered over the years from multiple stories, the one that sounds most realistic; A Cannon placed on a bridge guarding the mouth of the River Thymes in England perhaps 1800 range. It fell off into the river perhaps to erosion and wear and the military (Horses and Men) could not put it back together, it was gone. English poem totally, time and place work out. Some reality and truth behind most stories or lore.

  • @sarahnash7174
    @sarahnash7174 Рік тому +3

    Wow so many of the places you want to go make me want to see them, but this has invoked a real longing, absolutely stunning! Rod was incredible too, knowledgeable, funny.... He reminded me of you!

  • @charlieevilpig7776
    @charlieevilpig7776 Рік тому +3

    Thank you for the tour of Rock City! I have been wanting to go back there for ages! I absolutely love the place 💜

  • @mikehughes4969
    @mikehughes4969 Рік тому +3

    Every year, on our annual road trip from Illinois to Florida, my family would pass what seemed like hundreds of See Rock City barns. My brother and I always wanted to go, but Dad would grump about making time, and how we were going to Disneyworld so we didn't need to go there. Still haven't been there, but it is on the bucket list.

  • @nathanabbott5324
    @nathanabbott5324 Рік тому +2

    the jack horner story is that he was the steward to the abbot of Glastonbury. He sent Horner with a pie containing the deeds to twelve manor houses meant to ingratiate himself with the king. It's said that Jack put his thumb in the pie and pulled out the "plum" deed to Mells Manor. Where he and his descendants lived. Though his descendants dispute the myth.

  • @gillygillyyt55
    @gillygillyyt55 Рік тому +8

    Walt Disney also visited the Pleasure Beach amusement park in Blackpool, England early 1950's. He took ideas from the Alice in Wonderland ride there and you can clearly see the similarities between the rides. The ride is still operating in Blackpool.
    Thanks both, very informative 👍🇬🇧

  • @dawnchance1475
    @dawnchance1475 Рік тому +1

    I loved getting the fudge when I visited.

  • @alexgeorge501
    @alexgeorge501 Рік тому +2

    Love the TLD and DLC they put into this classic ride, have fun atop and at the base of the Mountain!

  • @opens11
    @opens11 Рік тому +3

    Such a lovely tour and excellent assistant guide!

  • @marypeek4628
    @marypeek4628 27 днів тому

    My great uncle was dangled over the lover's leap area with a rope tied around his waist to laaay some of the rock wall there.

  • @kategramlich8833
    @kategramlich8833 Рік тому

    Now that you met Jen you know what the real ROC IS!!! 😂🎉🎊😜

  • @paulajarman9314
    @paulajarman9314 Рік тому +1

    We have a yearly pass. Such a nice place to see and sit in the rockers and look over the cliff.

  • @rebeccav4659
    @rebeccav4659 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for this Mr. Bagger it’s one of my favorite places😍😍😍

  • @happysavage6660
    @happysavage6660 Рік тому

    Where is Ripley's Believe It Or Not, and make this the very first black ride, or walk-through, that inspired Disney's dark rides in the later future after Walt Disney himself, went there, and took a tour of the place?
    And Guinness Book of Records too?
    We need documentation here!
    A momentous occasion!

  • @lizlocher3612
    @lizlocher3612 Рік тому +2

    Those bejeweled doors are very reminiscent of Lord of the Rings, as well as some of the references to hobbits n gnomes lore, Mr. Underhill n Goblin Underpass, etc. Very cool dance on the precipice in your stunning yellow Crocs!!

  • @jdssurf
    @jdssurf 9 місяців тому

    man, earthquakes would be on my mind too much in caves like these.

  • @allensherrill850
    @allensherrill850 Рік тому +1

    Yes, that was a Cupie! 😂

  • @ManiacalMidget13
    @ManiacalMidget13 Рік тому +1

    This Place is Beautiful ! even for a creep like me. but I See they made me an Underpass ! 9:40 💯

  • @margie.harper
    @margie.harper Рік тому +1

    This was a great video! I’ve been there but this offers so much more info. Thanks!!

  • @TN431
    @TN431 Рік тому

    We have a barn here near Kouts Indiana that has the "Atop Lookout Mountain" painted on the side!

  • @KAnyeDAWay
    @KAnyeDAWay Рік тому +2

    Love the vids keep ‘em coming

  • @warmlantern0000
    @warmlantern0000 Рік тому

    In Jacksonville Florida there's a neighborhood with roads called Cinderella Lane Peter Pan Lane ECT ECT ECT. A hair salon called Cinderella. A laundry place called Snow White.

  • @talfacprez
    @talfacprez Рік тому

    You missed the crush penny machine.

  • @TheSassy777
    @TheSassy777 Рік тому

    Who owns Rock City? Is it family members or corporate owned. Beautiful place. Nice to see it still in operation….

    • @thepopcorncathedral
      @thepopcorncathedral Рік тому

      Family owned by the Chapin family--hand-picked successors of the Carters. 🙂

  • @Heatherofscots
    @Heatherofscots Рік тому

    A few months back I saw one of your videos at Rock City, it has been on my bucket list ever since.

  • @tdhdusty
    @tdhdusty Рік тому

    There’s a barn a town over from me in north Alabama that’s still has see rock city on it I went when I was a kid would love to go back!!

  • @BanazirGalpsi1968
    @BanazirGalpsi1968 Рік тому +3

    I think there is an attraction called rock city in the north as well. But this one is super cute.

  • @RetroRed101
    @RetroRed101 Рік тому

    Looks like you did most of the Chattanooga stuff while in town for lake Winnipesaukee. You should see it at Christmas when it's lit up really nice.

  • @AndysJourneys
    @AndysJourneys Рік тому

    Dang buddy I wish I had known you were in town. Hope you had a blast

  • @tmoz1228
    @tmoz1228 Рік тому

    Nice video Jacob! I gotta take the family there!!

  • @alanlough638
    @alanlough638 Рік тому

    Jacob, your UA-cam Channel rocks! 😊😊👍👍👍 I couldn't resist the pun! LOL

  • @mobius273
    @mobius273 Рік тому +1

    6:54 "it's my hole! It was made for me!"

  • @purplehound2420
    @purplehound2420 Рік тому

    I loved rewatching the earlier video and contrasting it with this one. I always loved Rock City. Rod's details were great. Did there seem to be less gnomes?

  • @manuelrodriguez8153
    @manuelrodriguez8153 Рік тому

    What a beautiful place and let me tell you that I live in Lake Tahoe.

  • @PaulGT
    @PaulGT Рік тому +2

    In the Peter the Pumpkin Eater tale. He actually kills his cheating wife and bakes her body in a pumpkin shell and there she kept very well! Fairytales were a lot darker.

  • @scottfreeman3748
    @scottfreeman3748 Рік тому

    Very nice place to visit thanks Jacob for showing me the video 😊