Tag: Proctor Creek

“When you get below Peachtree Creek, access to the river kind of stops,” says George Dusenbury, a vice president and the Georgia state director of the Trust for Public Land. “Communities in West Atlanta, South Cobb, South Fulton, and Douglas County don’t have the same access that exists in the north.” But that’s about to change, due to a flurry of new plans to expand opportunities to hike, pedal, paddle, and even camp along Atlanta’s iconic river.

Proctor, Tanyard, Clear, and Intrenchment creeks all begin downtown and flow out from the city like spokes—west, north, east, and south. The creeks predate the railroads and highways that have nearly buried them, but their exact sources remain a mystery.

The 350-acre former mining site—more than double the size of Piedmont Park—could become the city’s largest greenspace, but not until 2030.

When Na’Taki Osborne Jelks was 19, her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer after five years spent living in an area in Louisiana known as Cancer Alley.