Over twenty years in the making, Whitfield County’s Rocky Face Ridge Park will have its grand opening Monday.
The thousand-acre park features mountain biking trails, a lake, facilities for picnics and digitally interactive markers describing its place in Civil War history.
The $4 million effort was funded with about $3.2 million in local, state, and federal government funds, plus about $800,000 in grants from organizations dedicated to causes such as mountain biking, preserving Civil War battle sites, running and general livability.
“It’s a testament to the number of types of people that came together to make this one spot,” said Jess Hansen, Whitfield County’s GIS manager.
The park’s grand opening is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Monday at 2209 Crow Valley Road. The park’s been open since spring 2021, but county officials waited until the bathrooms were completed to host the grand opening, said Jevin Jensen, chairman of the Whitfield County Board of Commissioners.