Where is Stone Mountain.......????

Ya, we know exactly how you feel......  Always wondering, where in the world is "Stone Mountain"..

Anyway, we were told by our friends, from Sandy Oregon, that if we got around Atlanta we should checkout Stone Mountain.  After looking up Stone Mountain online it appeared to be an amusement park, so we were a bit apprehensive about even stopping, but Fred and Tina would not steer us wrong.  It turned out to be a beautiful park, and a great campground to stay in.  Stone Mountain is basically this mammoth Rock, made of Granite, sticking out of the ground.  It just doesn't look like it belongs here.

The park is 3200 acres in size, with a wide variety of things for people to do.  There is a SkyTram to take you to the top of the rock (Not the Rockefeller Center), a railroad to take you around the Rock, golf course, lakes, and even some history.  On one side Stone Mountain is a carving titled "Confederate Memorial Carving".  Long story about the carving, but it depicts three Confederate hero's of the Civil War, President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson.

More information is available from the  link below if you are interested:
http://www.stonemountainpark.com/activities/history-nature/Confederate-Memorial-Carving.aspx

Also, if you checkout the provided link, you can see some incredible pictures of the carving.

Much better than ones we managed to get.

Our pictures make it look like a PacMan carving.......  Sorry

We took the tram to the top, which gave us an awesome view of the Atlanta area, and trees for as far as you can see.  In the Winter they transform one area of the Stone Mountain Park into a snow park.  In the upper right hand picture you can see a white round object at the bottom.  The white mound is a mountain of man made snow, and it is growing every minute.  "CRAZY"

The snow is being blown onto the mound, you can sort of see the nozzle at the bottom left.  Some how the wooden ramps will be covered with that snow, and much more, and will become a tubing area.  Pretty Cool.

The lake in the park is huge, and stretches all around.  It was amazingly beautiful with the leaves turning colors, the water backdrop, the ducks and turtles on the lake, and did we mention the "SUN".

The park has an old historic Plantation, with a well preserved home and grounds, covered bridge out to an island and a water powered Grist Mill.

 So, Thank You, Fred and Tina, for your recommendation to visit "Stone Mountain".  A very beautiful place.

Tomorrow we make our way up North a bit, to Chattanooga Tennessee, to another recommendation from Fred and Tina, "Ruby Falls".  We are told that this is a huge, 145 foot, waterfall, underground in a cave. We don't expect that we will be disappointed.  We'll let you know.

As always, thanks for looking in on us.  See ya next time.

Steve and Roberta