And there are times that people need to get away from the calamities and the rush of the urban world and get out in places like this. The surrounding ridges of the eternal mountain s add to the serenity, some said. The mountains of Cherokee County are home to Fields of the Wood. It's just something everybody should see. The mountains make keeping the commandments a physical challenge, however.
Workers regularly have to undo the pull of gravity and straighten out stones that have slid askew.
It takes four men to lift a letter. And then again, there's the grass. Each of the 300 or so letters also must be manicured by weed whackers. Ten Commandment Mountain is part of 110 acres not covered by concrete or woods in the park, enough to keep a full time crew of four and a fleet of mowers in constant motion. The Ten Commandments keep sliding down the slope.