Mountain Park News

As the July 4th holiday gets underway officials from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources have reported a death at a local lake.

Be a part of history as Ga. 400 is temporarily shut down Sunday, July 12 for the inaugural "Hospitality Highway Century" to benefit the Georgia Transplant Foundation .

It's the Fourth of July weekend and we have a very extensive list of events. As you know, there are three types of Fourth of July weekend events: Those with *FIREWORKS,* those without *FIREWORKS,* and those that have nothing to do with the Fourth of July.

Trish's Brother Terrence was visiting from Scotland so we went to Stone Mountain and camped out there at Stone Mountain Park.

Before you know it, Independence Day will be here again! For those living in Atlanta , there are quite a few firework festivals.

Centennial Olympic Park has a couple of freebies to check out: It's " Wind Down Wednesdays ," with free jazz and reggae concerts in the evenings.

It's Father's Day weekend as well as the summer solstice. As a result, there are plenty of things to do this weekend.

THU/28 ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Miguel Harth-Bedoya conducts this first program in a festival of South American music using the ancient Inca Empire as its centralizing multimedia theme, with guest solo flutist Jessica Warren-Acosta. Repeats SAT/30. $18-$73. 8 p.m. Symphony Hall.

Trying to chisel a slab of metro Atlantans' "staycation" business as school lets out, Stone Mountain Park has loaded up on new features and deals for what it calls Summer at the Rock.

ATLANTA, GA, May 13, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Hampton Inn Atlanta Northlake announces an affordable way for friends to relax, reconnect, and get away from it all.

It's not as busy of a weekend as last weekend in terms of festivals and events, but the forecast is proving to look just as beautiful.

A spring scene at the lake at Stone Mountain Park, near Atlanta. Fernbank Museum of Natural History is featuring Larry Winslett's nature photography through May 17.

Hudson Dempaire, left, owner of Dempaire Design Studios on Memorial Drive near Goldsmith Road, stands with customer Stevi Hickman of Stone Mountain.

Date/Time: April 4-12, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Location: Crossroads at the base of Stone Mountain Prices: Adventure Pass- Adults $26/$21 children 3-11 Mountain Memberships- Adults $52/$42 children 3-11 Family Value Pass- 4 one-day Adventure Passes, 4 meals $109 purchase online only.

The parade of antique and muscle cars, a gleaming string of hand-rubbed wax jobs and American pride, will roll out at a stately pace on surface roads headed west from Conyers this Thursday afternoon.

North Fulton used to be called Milton County, but merged with Fulton County during the Depression.

At a time when the economy has shelved most real estate deals, Georgia's Jekyll Island Authority is doing a brisk business.

Gwinnett County Commissioner Mike Beaudreau has scheduled another meeting of his committee on trash issues for 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Mountain Park Activity Building, 1063 Rockbridge Road in Stone Mountain.

Trapeze artist Regina Dobrovitskaya lets visually impaired student Timothy Jones, 15, of Norcross, try out her trapeze during the touch session after the Big Apple Circus's show, Circus of the Senses, at Stone ...

As Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus rolls into town, Gail Mirabella and her troupe of pooches will be in tow.