Stone Mountain, Georgia

[OmahaBlueDog]

http://www.stonemountainpark.com/

Laser show, hiking, scenic railroad, sky car ride....and this



So, if you were in the greater Hotlanta area with your family, would you go see a (by all reasonable accounts) beautiful state park that has this monument to the Confederacy?

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	No!
	4 (33%)
	Yes!
	7 (58%)
	Yes, but if you do, also make a point to go to the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site
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[Warpy]

1. Avoid the crap. It's a really pretty area, otherwise

with lots of nice walks to take.

[Initech]

2. Kenneth from 30 Rock immediately comes to mind.

[Ilsa]

3. It's a beautiful park.

The stone monument is remarkable, as is the museum.

[Behind the Aegis]

4. I used to go there all the time. Loved the petting zoo and the train (tells you my age then).

It is a very pretty place, but I haven't been there in over 25 years.

[pinboy3niner]

5. 3rd option might include "or the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, AL"

[OmahaBlueDog]

14. Were we going to Montgomery, that would be high on the list

Good suggestion, however.

[Quixote1818]

6. Here is how it would look without that piece of shit carving

I photoshopped it off several years ago to see how nice the rock would have looked without it.

[Major Nikon]

7. There are monuments to the confederacy all over the South

If you want to avoid them all, you're going to miss out on a lot of other things. Stone Mountain is a great park with lots to see and do which has nothing to do with the monument.

[The Midway Rebel]

8. Yes, it is an amazing geologic wonder. A pluton intrusion of solid granite.

Even if it was defaced by the children of the Civil War generation to celebrate their parents "Lost Cause", that too has a history lesson. Amazing bells of some sort there too. I was there pre-laser in 1972. Nice beach and lake too.

The guy that was hired as the sculpture for that project also did Mount Rushmore.

[OmahaBlueDog]

13. Gutzon Borglum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutzon_Borglum

In 1918, he was one of the drafters of the Czechoslovak declaration of independence.

[greymattermom]

9. I live in Atlanta part time now

The Carter library is worth a trip also.

[OmahaBlueDog]

12. It's on the list on an if-we-have-time basis

OBDKid1 will be going to see Emory, so it could happen.

[defacto7]

10. Reminds me of signs I used to see for Ruby Falls when I was a kid...

"Endowed by nature..... Enhanced by man!"

Bull Shit!

[OmahaBlueDog]

11. I have seen neither Ruby Falls nor Rock City

I have, however, seen the billboards.

[defacto7]

15. It was an eye sore and a tourist trap as far as I could see.

I also have not seen them but when I was a kid, the signs for Ruby Falls were every few miles and were as annoying as hell but I don't know how it is now. It was destroying the countryside while advertising nature. But the "enhanced by man" part never made it for me. I never wanted to see Ruby Falls just because of that. I heard it was a little waterfall with a colored light on it.

[arely staircase]

16. it looks like a beautiful park and

confederate stuff is all over the deep south. as someone else posted you'd miss a lot in the south if you avoided every place with a confederate monument nearby.

[jazzimov]

17. NO! Because you can go up I-24

and visit South Cumberland State Park, or a little farther to Fall Creek Falls.

[Art_from_Ark]

18. It is a "memorial to the valor of the soldier of the South"

[Fumesucker]

19. Stone Mountain the town is 69% African American and is represented by Hank Johnson (D)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Mountain,_Georgia

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/henry_johnson/412199

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

20. Jake "The Snake" Roberts hailed from there (n/m)

[Phentex]

21. If you have time, yes...

The view at the top is worth the admission price. It's an easy walk back down if you want to see the rock up close. And do take time to visit the museums. The train ride is nice but the stuff in the little village is kinda cliche. The laser show is ok but very, very patriotic. You'll be humming Lee Greenwood for 30 minutes after!