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Grandson of Rock City founder shares tales of the iconic Americana destination

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The iconic Americana destination See Rock City has been an icon of Chattanooga since 1930.
Thomas Wilmer
The iconic Americana destination See Rock City has been an icon of Chattanooga since 1930.

Join Bill Chapin, grandson of the founding family of the legendary tourist attraction,
See Rock City on a mountaintop overlooking Chattanooga Tennessee shares tales of the iconic destination’s history.

Susan Harris, Rock City CEO, shares more cool tales about the unique destination and Chapin’s family history.

Funding for Journeys of Discovery provided by Nashville's Big Back Yard economic initiative focused on rural communities in the southwest quarter of Tennessee and the Shoals Region of Northern Alabama.

You are invited to subscribe to the Lowell Thomas Award-winning podcast travel show, Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer, featured on the NPR Podcast DirectoryiHeartRadioApple Podcast.

Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.