Sweetwater Creek State Park
Sweetwater Creek is a peaceful tract of wilderness only minutes from bustling downtown Atlanta. The most popular trail (red) follows the free-flowing stream to the ruins of the New Manchester Manufacturing Company, a text... famplosion.com
Heritage Park Trail, Smyrna, Georgia
This historic road explores a portion of Confederate General Joseph Johnston?s Smyrna Line and the remains of an old woolen mill. Hikers can view Ruff?s Mill and continue on to see Concord Covered Bridge. trails.com
Palisades East Trail, Atlanta, Georgia
This hike follows a ridgetop as it drops to the riverbank at the Whitewater Creek entrance then easily climbs along the Chattahoochee to East Palisades. The trail leaves the river, climbing to an overlook before returning onc... trails.com
Wild Horse Creek Trail, Powder Springs, Georgia
Wild Horse Creek Park, a 53-acre park, has four lighted tennis courts, baseball and softball fields, football and soccer fields, a BMX track and the Ron Anderson Recreation Center, which contains a gym and community center. In... patch.com
Silver Comet Trail
One of the region?s finest ?rail trails,? the Silver Comet follows the former route of a passenger train that ran from New York City to Birmingham, Alabama. Developed by the PATH Foundation in partnership with state and county ... mtbr.com
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
Kennesaw Mountain offers the best inland migration birding for warblers, vireos, and other landbirds in Georgia, if not the Southeast. Warbler counts of more than 20 species in a morning are not uncommon during peak migration... trails.com
East Palisades Trail, Roswell, Georgia
About 4.5 miles of winding forest footpaths along the steep bluffs overlooking the east side of the river provide access to some high bluff along the river. Only short sections of the East Palisades Trail are steep and strenu... trails.com
Powers Landing Trail, Smyrna, Georgia
This trail explores Powers Island in the Chattahoochee River and then follows the floodplain of the river to a wonderful cove in the river?s watershed. On the return to the trailhead the path offers scenic views of the river.... trails.com
West Palisades Unit Trail, Vinings, Georgia
The West Palisades Unit comprises 302 acres along 1.5 miles of shoals in the Chattahoochee River. The trail follows the riverbank and into the rocky palisades. A variety of habitats with open fields, dense woods, tumbling str... trails.com
Kennesaw Mtn Main Trail (From Visitor Center)
This is a nice short mountain hike just NW of Atlanta in a NPS Battlefield Park. The trail climbs fairly sharply from the visitor center, levels off at a roadbed and then climbs the rest of the way to the top of Kennesaw ... localhikes.com
Burnt Hickory Loop Trail, Kennesaw, Georgia
This is the most challenging trail in this book and one of the most rewarding in Atlanta area. On July 27, 1864, Union General William Sherman engaged Confederate forces under the command of General Joseph Johnson along a 5-m... trails.com
Cochran Shoals Trail
This trail follows the Cochran Shoals Walking Trail to a second loop trail that explores the watershed of the Chattahoochee River on an unnamed knoll. Cochran Shoals Trail is on the west side of the Chattahoochee River, ju... traillink.com
Sweetwater Nongame Wildlife Trails, Atlanta, Georgia
The Red, or Historic, Trail follows an old road through the historic city of New Manchester to Sweetwater Mill then continues to an overlook of Sweetwater Creek falls. The Yellow Trail crosses the river and climbs into the wa... trails.com
Love Squared: Marietta Square, Marietta, Georgia
Spend an enchanted weekend together discovering the delicious attractions around what we consider to be the handsomest town square in Georgia (outside Savannah). Glover Park is the centerpiece of the lovely antebellum town of... trails.com
Summit To Pigeon Hill Trails Loop, Marietta, Georgia
The 2,922-acre Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park preserves the site of battles fought between determined Union and Confederate Armies from June 22 to July 2, 1864. The summit and surrounding foothills provided stron... trails.com
East Palisades Unit Trails, Sandy Springs, Georgia
This unit of the Chattahoochee River offers a taste of rugged beauty from high, heavily wooded ridges above the water to sandy, lushly carpeted floodplains lined with ferns and willows. Late autumn and winter are ideal season... trails.com
Silver Comet Trail: Floyd Road To Florence Road, Mableton And...
This path is the Silver Comet Trail?s continuation west from Floyd Road. Along this section?s 7.3-mile route (one way), the trail passes through a railroad cut, over a trestle bridge with a panoramic view of the Dogwood Count... trails.com
Kolb’s Farm Loop, Kennesaw, Georgia
The trail explores the north end of a Civil War battlefield. It is also designed to attract birds, from common yellow finches to the stunning scarlet tanager. Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park was the first area to ... trails.com