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At Rock City, visit Lover’s provided shelter to wildlife See more of the Historic High
Leap and see Rock City’s and Native Americans. Country on any of several driving
legendary views of seven In Georgia’s Rome, kayak trails: the Old Dixie Highway (U.S.
states, walk the 180-foot or canoe along the Etowah River 41); Southern Highroads Trail through
suspension bridge, and enjoy Trails, or catch a Rome Braves minor North Georgia and four neighboring
the art installations that enhance the league baseball game. states; Chieftains Trail highlighting
natural beauty of the Enchanted Trail. Reflect on Native American culture three distinct Native American
PHOTO: CREATIVE COMMONS – THOMSON200
Sail the skies from the Lookout at Cartersville’s Etowah Indian cultures; the Blue & Gray Trail,
Etowah Indian Mounds Mountain Flight Park, which offers Mounds; at Calhoun’s New Echota guiding travelers through 1860s life
expansive views and a lifetime rush Historic Site, once capital of the and Civil War history; and the Civil
hiking along the lake shores and as you hang glide over ridges and Cherokee Nation; and at Chatsworth’s War Heritage Trail featuring both
on the mountainsides. valleys. Farther south in Dallas, Hiram, Chief Vann House Historic Site. Chickamauga and Atlanta campaigns. HISTORIC HIGH COUNTRY
Hike part of the Appalachian Trail Rockmart and Cedartown, hikers,
or stay on it for the entire 2,181- cyclists, and equestrians can access • HISTORIC HIGH COUNTRY •
mile trek from Georgia to Maine, the popular Silver Comet Trail, built
along an old railroad route. Pine Mountain Gold Museum
undoubtedly the adventure of a
lifetime. Other area hiking and Pigeon Mountain in LaFayette We are Georgia’s only gold museum that is located
mountain biking trails include boasts wonders galore. Find one on an actual gold mine with gold and gem panning
of the deepest caves in the world on-site. Our beautiful 4,800 square-foot museum
those in the Cohutta Wilderness Area – Ellison Cave – plus riding trails, houses many exhibits of artifacts used to mine
and the Benton Mackaye Trail. hiking, and primitive camping. One gold. In addition to gold mining artifacts, the
museum contains regional artifacts, some of which
Stroll through the unusual folk of the most intriguing places on the date back as far as 12,000 BC.
1881 Stockmar Rd.
art ROCK Garden in Calhoun, the mountain is an easy one-mile hike Villa Rica, GA 30180
breathtaking Gibbs Gardens in Ball to the mysterious “Rock Town,” a 678-840-1445
Ground, or famous Rock City Gardens collection of boulders and monoliths PineMountainGoldMuseum.com
on Lookout Mountain. that resemble a town and that have
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