Free State
The Free State is a rural province of wide horizons and blue skies. With miles of farmland, mountains, goldfields and widely dispersed towns, the Free State takes you back in time.
Home to many geological wonders shaped by time, the Free State’s striking features are as significant as they are awesome.
Attractions:
Two of the Free State’s top geological attractions are the cliffs of the Golden Gate Highlands National Park and the Vredefort Dome. The Vredefort Dome is the impact site of an asteroid, believed to have struck earth two billion years ago.
The Golden Gate Highlands National Park is renowned for its impressive sandstone features, most notably The Sentinel buttress. The Sentinel is the most northern point and the highest freestanding peak of the Drakensberg Mountains.
The Drakensberg area is filled with other interesting sandstone formations such as the peculiarly named Gladstone’s Nose and Titanic, as well as caves, overhangs, rock shelters and cliffs.
