Stone Mountain Park
Stone Mountain is the home of a civil war memorial depicting Confederate President Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee and Lt. General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.

We visited Stone Mountain in December, so the background to this page is Christmas lights from the park!

 

Confederate memorial Confederate memorial
This is the mountain with the carving
And here's a closer look at the carving

 

Close-up of Confederate memorial Close-up of Confederate memorial
And here are some really close looks. (Thanks for the zoom lens, Ben!)

 

Side of mountain cable car
So, this mountain is really high...
and we're afraid of heights.
So naturally, we took the cable car to the top.

 

visitors' center steeple and road

 

sunset Aaron

 

granite surface vista
The mountain is made of granite,
and it looks like the surface of the moon.

 

And this is the Atlanta skyline in the distance. The park website notes that in the 1830s the view from Stone Mountain included 5 local towns, one of which was Terminus: "a few straggling huts beyond Decatur."

 

And more Christmas lights!

 
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Last updated 6/10/2002