This privately owned nature area on the eastern side of Kessler Mountain includes hiking trails that are not open to the public. Permission must be requested before hiking them.
They lead up the west side of the mountain and connect with the public trails within Kessler Mountain Regional Park.
An article in the July 11, 1919, edition of the Fayetteville Democrat mentioned that students from the university would take the morning train out to Farmington to study “rock structures” of Kessler Mountain, including a section known as the “Labyrinth,” which is presumed to be the same part of the mountain known today as Rock City.
Labyrinth is an apt word because Rock City includes a trail section leading through narrow spaces surrounded by rock formations cleaved from one another.