Tuesday, February 14, 2023

The trail that runs nearby

 I suppose I’m particularly interested in the ancient network of trails in the Atlanta area because one of them runs near our place in Stone Mountain.

If I have to get on a main road, it’s usually Rockbridge Road, which follows part of the old Sandtown Trail, mentioned in yesterday’s note. Rockbridge Road is winding, hilly and scenic. I take it — rather than the freeway — to Atlanta. The rewards of scenery are worth the extra time.

The local historian Mark Pifer thinks the Rock Bridge was never a bridge but a series of rocks or boulders in the Yellow River that allowed a traveler to cross on foot. One day I'd like to find that site.

• Source: Mark Pifer, Native Decatur; Decartur, Ga.: Downriver Books, 2018.

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