Stone Mountain Trail

The Stone Mountain trail begins at Centennial Olympic Park and travels through Freedom Park before becoming an on-street connection on moderately traveled streets though Candler Park and Lake Claire neighborhoods. The Stone Mountain Trail becomes a side path through Decatur and then a rails-to-trails greenway into Clarkston (over I-285). This trail is a side path to the outskirts of Stone Mountain Village. There are several blocks of sharing busy streets through the village to get to Stone Mountain Park. It is a busy trail suitable for families on weekends.

The aim of this project is to focus on creating a shared planning paradigm of land-use changes that align with transportation plans and opportunities for new economic development in areas designated as redevelopment areas while responding to the housing displacement patterns that continue to force long-time residents out of their neighborhoods and price young, first-time homebuyers out of the market altogether.

As such, an application to the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) was submitted to gather funds to make this vision possible.

ARC evaluated applicants based on eight regional priority issues that were developed based on feedback from local governments:

• Access to Healthy Food
• Creative Placemaking
• Historic Preservation
• Housing Affordability
• Impacts of Climate Change
• Lifelong Communities
• Smart Technology
• Workforce Development