Stone Mountain Carving

Today, we visited Stone Mountain Park. This is a Georgia State Park.  The park gets it's name from the large Granite protrusion in the middle of the park.  It stands 800’ high and is 5 miles around.  It goes below the surface about ...

... the memorial Museum in the park.  There, we viewed two movies.  One was the construction of the large carving on he face of stone mountain.  The other was about the civil war in Georgia. We returned to the RV park and visited with others ...

... ;       Time for the museum now and we learned a bit about the making of the carving at Stone Mountain.  The original sculpture was Gutzon Borglum.  This was a man on tremendous imagination and ambition.  His ...

... a challenging and satisfying achievement for us. We took a pile of photos of our once-in-a-lifetime hike. The German restaurant in Stone Mountain Village, the Village Corner, was a great reward at the end of the day. Stone Mountain Park filled to the ...

... the mountain, with enough to keep you coming back again and again. A skylift takes you past the carving to the summit; the Stone Mountain Railroad takes you five miles around the base of the mountain, past granite quarries and natural forests. ...