<p>Stone Mountain Park got the world record it was seeking Sunday _ the largest egg hunt ever, coming one week before Easter Sunday.</p><p>"We had 10,000 in attendance and 301,000 eggs hidden," said Christine Parker, a spokeswoman for Stone Mountain Park, adding that a representative of Guiness World Record was on hand to present a certificate showing it was a world mark.</p><p>It broke the previous mark of 292,686 held by the Rockford (Ill.) Park District, which has plans for an even larger hunt next year.</p><p>"We're always up for a good challenge," said Tim Dimke, chief operating officer for the park district, located about 75 miles west of Chicago. "We're already potentially making plans for 2007. It would be premature to speculate so it could be big."</p><p>And Stone Mountain is showing no sign of budging from a burgeoning egg race.</p><p>"Obviously if this is that big of a hit, this may be an annual event for Atlanta, so we may have to up our eggs, too," Parker said.</p><p>Most of the eggs found Sunday contained candy, but more than 4,000 of them had prizes such as tickets for free DVDs. or park activities.</p><p>The northeast Georgia town of Homer is among the earliest to hold the world record for an Easter egg hunt _ 80,000 eggs, listed in the 1985 Guinness Book of World Records. The event is an Easter Sunday tradition in the town that's lasted 47 years, said Sandra Garrison, whose family throws the egg hunt each year for about 5,000 children and adults.</p><p>A group in Manatee, Fla., broke the record in 1991 with 120,000 eggs. That hunt remained without peer (or peep) for nearly a decade, until 150,000 Easter eggs were hidden in 1999 in Victoria, Australia.</p><p>A new record arrived with the new millennium _ 254,000 eggs were hidden in a 2001 Easter egg hunt in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Rockford then clinched the title last year.</p><p>____</p><p>On the Net:</p><p>HASH(0x1cdbde8)</p><p>HASH(0x1cdbe90)</p><p>HASH(0x1cdbf74)</p>
