Tag: Stone Mountain

Looking for great Jamaican and Caribbean food in Atlanta? Pienanny owner Tiffany Parkes takes us on a tour of her favorite spots in Stone Mountain, where people from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and beyond have opened several restaurants along Memorial Drive.

The 825-foot-tall hunk of granite surrounded by 3,200 acres of state-owned park is a historic and adventurous spot for a daytrip. Take a shaded hike or a cable car to the top for an impressive view of the landscape, ride a 1940s-era Army Duck on Stone Mountain Lake, or explore the treetops on an adventure course of ropes and swinging bridges.

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Peachtree Hills Place, right next to Peachtree Creek and will eventually connect to the Atlanta BeltLine, offers spacious units with upscale features like 10-foot ceilings, high-end appliances, and luxurious master baths. Subtle accommodations like lever door handles, shower grab bars, and wider doorways allow for aging in place.

Stone Mountain isn’t the only enormous granite monadnock around.

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From the downtown square of Duluth to the water rides at Hurricane Harbor, fireworks are going off all over metro Atlanta this Independence Day.

Nothing beats an observatory if you want to get up close and personal with a celestial body. Or, find an open field, set up away from skyscrapers, and get to gazing.

The Harlem Globetrotters posted a video of their latest stunt—player Bucket Blakes taking a 300ft shot from a cable car in Stone Mountain Park.

The idea of an MLK monument, which would reference a line from his most famous speech, has become the subject of a fierce outcry among Confederate sympathizers and King’s contemporaries alike.