Rock City Gardens
Rock City Gardens is a garden in Georgia, at a modelled elevation of 501 m. Round Top stands 647 m to the south-southwest, 9.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Gnome Valley, a park 0.1 miles away. Lookout Mountain Parkway passes 0.8 miles off.
How to reach it
- 0.8 mi off the Lookout Mountain Parkway
- 15.6 mi off the Sequatchie Valley Scenic Byway, National
- 23.2 mi off the Cohutta-Chattahoochee Scenic Byway
- 24.6 mi off the Ridge and Valley Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Gnome Valley: 0.1 mi
- Spiritualist Campground - Natural Bridge: 1.5 mi
- Jane's Garden: 1.6 mi
- Terrace Park: 1.7 mi
- hammock/picnic lawn: 1.7 mi
- Snodgrass Hill: 5.5 mi
- Raccoon Mountain: 5.6 mi
- Cameron Hill: 5.7 mi
- Cardboard Hill: 6.5 mi
- Tatum Mountain: 6.6 mi
- New York Peace Monument: 2.6 mi
- Ohio Monument: 2.8 mi
- Grose's Brigade and Regimental monuments at Lookout Mountain: 2.8 mi
- New York State Monument at Lookout Ridge: 2.8 mi
- Iowa Monument: 2.8 mi
- Cravens House: 2.8 mi
- Ruby Falls: 3.2 mi
- Freedom Church: 5.0 mi
- Snodgrass House: 5.5 mi
- Cannon Ball: 5.7 mi
- Eagle Cliff: 3.5 mi
- Hawk Cliff: 6.1 mi
- Street Point: 6.5 mi
- High Point: 7.1 mi
- Tennessee Wall: 7.5 mi
- High Falls: 0.1 mi
- Glen Falls 15: 1.0 mi
- Lower Cascades Glen Falls 65: 1.0 mi
- Upper Glen Falls 12: 1.0 mi
- Lula Falls 100: 3.1 mi
- Battles of Chattanooga Museum: 2.5 mi
- Ochs Memorial Museum: 2.7 mi
- International Towing and Recovery Hall of Fame and Museum: 3.3 mi
- Sixth Cavalry Museum: 5.4 mi
- Bessie Smith Cultural Center and Chattanooga African American Museum: 5.5 mi
- Moonrise: 3.5 mi
- Nutrition Sculpture: 5.4 mi
- Resurgence II: 5.5 mi
- Resurgence I: 5.5 mi
- Ruth Holmberg Memorial: 5.8 mi
- Audubon Society Wildlife Refuge: 6.3 mi
- Elise Chapin Wildlife Sanctuary: 9.6 mi
- Audubon Acres: 9.7 mi
- Cloudland Canyon State Park: 10.9 mi
- TVA Big Ridge Small Wild Area: 12.0 mi
- Straight Spring: 0.4 mi
- Obar Spring: 4.7 mi
- Crawfish Spring: 7.8 mi
- Taylor Spring: 8.6 mi
- Burnt Cabin Springhouse: 10.6 mi
- Sensory Garden: 2.5 mi
- Wild Ones Pollinator Garden: 2.6 mi
- Blue Cross Orchard Garden: 5.6 mi
- Blue Cross Garden: 5.8 mi
- Jo Lawrence Memorial Garden: 9.0 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 2.8 mi
- Picnic Area: 6.4 mi
- Picnic Grove: 10.3 mi
- Picnic and Grill sites: 12.1 mi
- Picnic Area #2: 16.1 mi
- Chickamauga Dam Beach: 11.0 mi
- Booker T. Washington Park Beach: 13.7 mi
- Chester Frost Park Beach: 18.2 mi
- Harrison Bay Park Beach: 18.3 mi
- Georgia Visitor Information Center - I 75 South: 9.9 mi
- Tennessee Welcome Center: 12.4 mi
- Natural Bridge: 8.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.6 miles of Rock City Gardens. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Round Top | SSW 199° | 647 m | 9.9 mi |
| Suck Creek Mountain | NNW 342° | 624.84 m | 15.2 mi |
| Round Knob | N 355° | 601 m | 12.5 mi |
| Buck Knob | N 4° | 595 m | 16.5 mi |
| Fox Mountain | SW 217° | 591 m | 20.5 mi |
| Fox Mountain | SW 217° | 584 m | 19.8 mi |
| Deerstand Hill | W 280° | 572 m | 24.2 mi |
| Elder Mountain | NNW 344° | 569 m | 9.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:46 | 19:20 | 19:53 |
| June solstice | 06:29 | 20:22 | 20:59 |
| September equinox | 07:30 | 19:06 | 19:40 |
| December solstice | 07:46 | 16:55 | 17:34 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 37 | 40 | 48 | 58 | 66 | 73 | 76 | 75 | 70 | 59 | 48 | 41 |
| Precip in | 5.5 | 6.0 | 5.6 | 5.5 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 4.9 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 5.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lookout Mtn-point Park, 3 mi away.
- leatherleaf mahonia82 obs
- Amur honeysuckle50 obs
- Carolina sweetshrub47 obs
- mountain laurel46 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle42 obs
- Ivy-leaved toadflax42 obs
- woodland pinkroot38 obs
- North American Luna Moth37 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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