Stone Mountain State Park Georgia

Stone Mountain State Park Georgia, a shrine to the Confederacy and a beautiful park.

Our site in the campground

Famous for the rock carving of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.

The carving is hard to see because of all the construction for the holidays. It was hard to get these photos. 

Snow tubing run?

Winter festival castle

They were making snow for a giant Snow tubing run. Or maybe it was a ski jump? 

But the fall foliage was at peak and gorgeous! NJ's had been underwhelming.

  

 The grist mill, moved here from someplace else.

We walked up the trail to the top of the granite outcropping, not quite a mountain despite the park's name. 

Despite a temp of 39 degrees, the wind chill at the top must have been below 0. I no longer feel a need to climb Everest.

 Biking in the park.

Sometimes you just need to take a shortcut

It was unusually cold for Atlanta. Most of the time we were at Stone Mountain it was in the 30s and low 40s during the day, and a few degrees below freezing at night. 
I guess the locals are not used to the cold. The morning we left the campground we saw a guy walking his dog from his car. He was driving, the window was open a crack for the leash, and the dog was trotting alongside the car. Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture.