1 COVINGTON HWY LITHONIA TURNER HILL RD KEY MAIN ST CONYERS ST PROTECTED GREEN SPACE ROCK OUTCROPPING to Atlanta POINT OF INTEREST RESTROOMS RR 20 20 EVANS MILL RD PARKING MILE MARKER M A KWY (DISTANCE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS L L P Stonecrest Mall NATURE CENTER (INCLUDES BIKE W MALL PKWY IS APPROXIMATELY ONE MILE) O AND VEHICLE PARKING, PICNIC AREAS) O D R O W 2 20 EVANS MILL RD D R SELF-GUIDED PATH TOUR SCALE APPROXIMATE N KLONDIKE RD Explore a land 400 million years in the making. The Arabia Mountain 0 1/2 1 mile 3 National Heritage Area (AMNHA) is an open landscape of breathtaking TURNER HILL RD beauty, peace, and wonder just east of Atlanta along I-20. SALEM RD S ROCKLAND RD N Dominated by two massive granite outcrops, it offers visitors A P F I natural wonders, compelling history and heart-pumping activity. N G E ROCKLAND RD R RD PANOLA R D - The PATH Foundation trail within the AMNHA is designed to G Davidson A B Arabia Mountain RO link cultural, scenic, natural and historic sites. More than 30 1 W Nature Preserve 5 N 5 5 S 4 miles of dedicated, paved trails are open to bikers and N M 8 IL L R hikers. We’ve highlighted some of our favorite sites here. This D D - NORTH 2 R 1 2 L GODDARD RD interactive PDF can either be printed or viewed on a digital MLK, JR. IL High School S M A N device. Links, when clicked, will lead to additional information. 11 EV 6 A.W.A.R.E. There are several opportunities with the Davidson-Arabia 7 Mountain Nature Preserve to hike trails on foot and bike racks SOUTH GODDARD RD are located at the entrances to several of these trails. Remember 9 10 Weekends to always be prepared for your ride, take plenty of water, a cell SNAPFINGER RD - GA 155 N Only 12 KLONDIKE RD phone and sunscreen. The terrain is hilly and some bikers should be aware that some climbs are particularly strenuous. BROWNS MILL RD - 212 HONEY CREEK 13 16 Historic District of Lithonia Flat Rock Community 14 Railroad Cut 15 S W Lyon Farm ID GE RD FLAT BR Vaughters’ Farm South River Bridge #1 17 W S D Panola Mountain R Arabia Mountain & Quarry KE DANIELS Alexander Barn State Park LA RS BRIDGE RD Remains Nature Center ALEXAND E The Parker House Quarry Office Ruins 18 STOCKBRIDGE HWY - GA 138 UNION CHURCH RD Panola Mountain Farming Terraces South Rockdale Serpentine Bridge Community Park Horace King Commemorative DeCastro Retreat E. FAIRVIEW RD SW Covered Bridge 19 Lorraine Trailhead 19 HONEY CREEK RD Evans Mill Ruins 20 South River Bridge #2 Historic District of Klondike 20 21 Monastery of the Holy Spirit Monastery Pole Bridge Creek Wastewater of the The development and printing of this map was made possible by a grant Holy Spirit Treatment Plant from the National Park Foundation through the generous support of STOCKBRIDGE HWY 21 Coca-Cola, the Coca-Cola Foundation, Disney, and the Scrooby Foundation. UNION CHURCH RD NATIONAL HISTORIC DISTRICT OF LITHONIA examples. Want to see more? Check for ranger guided FLAT ROCK COMMUNITY Flat Rock is one of the The Southerness Golf Course surrounding the Parker hikes here. Lithonia means “place of stone.” From the profusion of granite oldest African-American settlements in Georgia. It began as House opened in 1991 but has been reclaimed as part of in homes and along Main Street, you can see why. The city was an agricultural community bounded by three small slave- Panola Mountain State Park—can you see the old cart QUARRY RUINS With imposing stone walls and no more than a crossroads before the Georgia Railroad arrived holding farms: the South, Lyon, and Johnson farms. After paths? Now, the links are home to an archery program, barred windows, many speculate the building was a jail but it linking Augusta and Atlanta in 1845. It was incorporated the Civil War, newly freed slaves stayed in the area forming primitive camping, and a birding area. was most likely an office to support granite quarry operations. in 1856 and the town boundary extended just a mile from schools, churches, and civic organizations. By the 1920s, It’s one of several such ruins around the Nature Preserve. Park the railroad station. That boundary and many historic town many had begun migrating to northern cities for better PANOLA MOUNTAIN Panola Mountain is considered your bike and explore along the Mile Rock Trail. buildings are intact today. Find out more about the history of economic opportunity. This prompted T.A. Bryant, a local one of the finest rock outcrops in the U.S. and is a designated Lithonia and its structures by taking this walking tour. farmer and businessman, to purchase property which was National Natural Landmark. The Georgia Conservancy led FARMING TERRACES Pause near the wildlife overlook sold and leased under generous terms in order to encourage the conservation effort and purchased the mountain in 1974. in a long bend in the PATH and peer into the woods uphill, RAILROAD CUT Most of the PATH trail between people to stay in Flat Rock. Today the Bryant house at 3979 Today the monadnock and its expanded 1,635-acre preserve can you imagine it as farmland? You may be able to see the Lithonia and Arabia Mountain lies in an old railroad bed. The Crossvale Road is home to the Flat Rock Archives which tells are a state park. The PATH trail winds around the park but due terraces that date to a time when this hilly region was covered most visible evidence are the embankments north of the the community’s story and is open to the public. President to the delicate nature of the ecological system, hikers are only in farms. Farmers were encouraged to terrace their fields to intersection of Woodrow and Klondike Roads. This 4-mile RR Johnny Waits offers tours which can include the slave allowed on Panola with a guide. decrease soil runoff. Much larger and older oak trees grow spur opened in 1889 and was used to transport granite from cemetery and the Lyon Farm. in the sloped faces of some terraces where rocks were also the quarries at Arabia Mountain. The increased use of trucks placed to stabilize the slopes and reduce erosion. SERPENTINE BRIDGE After nearly a mile-long climb to haul stone, development of alternatives to building stone, LYON FARM This family farm is one of the oldest from Alexander Lake, you descend into a thickly forested The nearby Forest Trail has a short section that is located homesteads in the area. The Lyon Family were one of the first and the effects of the Great Depression caused several quarries valley, accented by a serpentine bridge high above a trickling on a terrace. white settlers along the South River and descendants lived to close and the Arabia Mountain line was abandoned in 1935. creek. This area, previously slated for development, was The right-of-way was donated by Hanson Aggregates in 2002 here until 2007. It is now owned by DeKalb County. The main HORACE KING COMMEMORATIVE COVERED recently incorporated into the park to serve as a corridor for to construct the PATH. portion of the farmhouse dates to the 1850s and family history BRIDGE The covered bridge over Stephenson Creek was notes that slaves once lived in the basement. Outbuildings the trail. built by the PATH Foundation in 2004 but its design was VAUGHTERS’ FARM such as the barn, workshed and sorghum mill reflect the self- based on the lattice truss construction used by Horace DECASTRO RETREAT The DeCastro Homestead was This is the last remaining dairy farm landscape in a county sustaining nature of the farm. The family raised cows, hogs, King. A slave who bought his freedom in 1846, King was an donated to Rockdale County in 1996 to be used as part of that was once renowned for its dairy farming. S.B. Vaughters cotton, muscadines, bees and a fruit orchard. Look across the engineer and architect who built bridges across the South. At the trail system. There is a suspension bridge located ¼ mile bought the 144-acre farm for $4,230 and built the house and power line cut for one of the finest views of Panola Mountain. one point, King was responsible for every major crossing on below the DeCastro house on the right side of the trail. barn in 1947. He raised cattle for dairy and beef through the the Chattahoochee River. After the Civil War, King continued 1980s. Mr. Vaughters, who also taught vocational agriculture SOUTH RIVER BRIDGE The South River is part of the building and served in the Alabama State House. 19 LORRAINE TRAILHEAD This lovely park and walking at Murphy Candler School, built the family home across Upper Ocmulgee watershed and is the third largest river in the trails are nestled along the South River. However, this site Klondike Road out of local granite with the help of a seventh Atlanta region. It is fabricated using cor-ten steel, which was EVANS MILL RUINS Just off the trail head parking grade student. The farm land includes granite outcrops and developed to form a stable rust-like appearance when exposed was not always a picturesque spot. It was once an auto lot are the remnants of a dam and millrace for a mill located the headwaters of Stephenson Creek which flows into the to the weather for a few years. At the end of the bridge, stairs salvage yard and the grounds were piled with abandoned just across Pole Bridge Creek.