Sports & Recreation
Atlanta Barbell
290 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Suite B-103, Atlanta, GA, 30312
404-333-2700
Largest cross-fit gym offers Olympic-style weight lifting and small circuit-training classes.
Website: http://atlbarbell.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Cabbagetown
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Gyms, Health & Medical, Sports & Recreation, Weight Loss
Atlanta Bocce League
Piedmont Avenue at 10th Street*, Atlanta, GA, 30309
This league’s 1,000 players (on 125 teams) drop only $45 each for a season of socializing. The league also rotates through several city bars.
Website: http://www.atlbocce.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Grant Park, Midtown, Westside / Home Park
Category: Recreation Clubs, Sports & Recreation
Atlanta Lawn Tennis Association
6849 Peachtree Dunwoody Road, Atlanta, GA, 30328
770-399-5788
The local obsession with rackets and nets is nurtured at 1934-founded ALTA, now an amateur nonprofit with more than 80,000 highly competitive players.
Website: http://www.altatennis.org
Neighborhood: Atlanta, North Metro
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Recreation Clubs, Sports & Recreation
Bangkok Boxing
1019 Collier Road, Atlanta, GA, 30327
770-497-4454
Whether you want to learn to fight like a mixed martial artist or simply burn 1,000 calories in a kickboxing class, four-time Muay Thai World Champion Khunpon Dechkampu will show you how.
Website: http://bangkokboxingfitness.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Morningside / Lenox Park
Category: Gyms, Martial Arts, Sports & Recreation, Sports & Recreation Instruction
Becky Nickerson, Agni Power Yoga
655 Highland Avenue, Suite 2, Atlanta, GA, 30312
The asanas are traditional but the music is cool and fun—ever heard of hip-hop artist MC Yogi?—and her classes strike that difficult balance of welcoming beginners while providing a workout for the advanced.
Website: http://agnipoweryoga.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Old Fourth Ward
Category: Best of Atlanta 2013, Sports & Recreation, Yoga Studio
BeltLine Lantern Parade
86 Pryor Street, Suite 300, Atlanta, GA, 30303
404-477-3003
Hosted by the Krewe of the Grateful Gluttons, the parade features hundreds of giant puppets, light sculptures, lanterns and glow sticks, and thousands of cheering spectators along its route.
Website: http://beltline.org/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Downtown, Old Fourth Ward
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Arts & Events, Best of Atlanta 2013, Non-Profit Organizations, Outdoor Recreation, Parks & Beaches, Professionals, Sports & Recreation
Big Creek Greenway
Marconi Drive to Mansell Road, Alpharetta, GA, 30022
After you depart one of the five convenient parking lots along the 8.3-mile Alpharetta trail, the rumble of traffic quickly gives way to the chirp of crickets and cicadas and the peaceful trickle of the adjacent creek.
Website: http://bigcreekgreenway.com
Category: Best of Atlanta 2013, Outdoor Recreation, Sports & Recreation
BLAST900 – Buckhead
56 East Andrews Drive, Suite 11, Atlanta, GA, 30305
404-841-5430
This Buckhead gym promises to burn 900 calories in an hour.
Website: http://blast900.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Buckhead
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Gyms, Sports & Recreation
BLAST900 – Dunwoody
5521 Chamblee Dunwoody Road, Dunwoody, GA, 30338
404-841-5430
This Dunwoody gym promises to burn 900 calories in an hour.
Website: http://www.blast900.com/
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Gyms, Sports & Recreation
Brunswick’s Norcross
6345 Spalding Drive, Norcross, GA, 30092
770-840-8200
Lanes at Brunswick’s Norcross are pricey ($25 an hour, $35 on weekends), but concierge-level service makes it splurge-worthy.
Website: http://brunswicks.com/norcross.html
Category: Best of Atlanta 2013, Bowling Alleys, Sports & Recreation
Chaos Conditioning
325 East Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, GA, 30305
404-590-5852
The small but effective interval-training gym is well known for hosting bootcamp-style workout classes—think modified jump-roping, digs, squats, and push-ups—that leave you trembling and toned.
Website: http://chaosconditioning.com
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Buckhead
Category: Best of Atlanta 2013, Fitness & Instruction, Gyms, Sports & Recreation
Decatur Bikes
252 West Ponce de Leon Avenue, Decatur, GA, 30030
404-941-8717
A one-stop cycling and triathlon supply shop in Decatur.
Website: http://decaturbikes.com/
Category: Appliance Repair, Services, Sporting Goods, Sports & Recreation
DragonCon
Downtown Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, 30303
Every parade has bands and politicians, but this Labor Day extravaganza has bagpipers in steampunk gear and ruling-class representatives from Doctor Who and Game of Thrones.
Website: http://dragoncon.org/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Downtown
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Arts & Events, Best of Atlanta 2013, Family Fun, Local Attractions, Sports & Recreation
Exhale
1065 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA, 30309
404-720-5000
Located on the seventh floor of the Loews Hotel, this total-wellness spa whips you into overall shape the way health spas (like Arizona’s Canyon Ranch) used to do before so many of them got into the pampering business.
Website: http://exhalespa.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Midtown
Category: Beauty and Spas, Fitness & Instruction, Gyms, Massage & Bodyworks, Services, Sports & Recreation, Yoga Studio
Flywheel Sports
102 West Paces Ferry Road, Suite A, Atlanta, GA, 30305
678-702-5684
This is no peloton for middle-of-the-pack riders: There’s stadium-style seating on high-tech bikes, dimmed lighting, and plenty of attractive riders at this indoor cycling studio.
Website: http://atlanta.flywheelsports.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Buckhead
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Gyms, Recreation Facilities, Sports & Recreation
Freedom Park Trail
Boulevard and Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, GA, 30312
This paved, mostly shaded route offers a glimpse of the city without the crowds of the BeltLine’s Eastside Trail.
Website: http://pathfoundation.org/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Candler Park, Inman Park, Old Fourth Ward
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Arts & Events, Best of Atlanta 2013, Parks & Beaches, Recreation Facilities, Sports & Recreation
Houndstooth Road
316 Church Street, Decatur, GA, 30030
404-220-8957
If you’re a casual cruiser—especially the style-conscious sort who pedals the BeltLine, cappuccino in hand, organic produce in wicker basket—this is your place.
Website: http://h2rd.com/
Category: Best of Atlanta 2013, Sporting Goods, Sports & Recreation
Peachtree Road Race
3097 East Shadowlawn Avenue (Atlanta Track Club), Atlanta, GA, 30305
404-231-9064
One of the world’s oldest and largest 10K races, there’s no more thrilling Atlanta moment than racing down the city’s main thoroughfare on July 4.
Website: http://www.peachtreeroadrace.org
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Buckhead
Category: Community, Community Organizations, Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation