Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Midtown
Midtown is like a hipper, second downtown, with plenty of great bars, restaurants and
cultural venues.
High Museum of Art
GALLERY
(
www.high.org
;
1280 Peachtree St NE; adult/child $19.50/12; 10am-5pm Mon-Sat, noon-5pm
Sun)
Atlanta's modern High Museum was the first to ever exhibit art lent from Paris'
Louvre, and is a destination as much for its architecture as its world-class exhibits. The
striking whitewashed multilevel building houses a permanent collection of eye-catching
late-19th-century furniture, early American modern canvases from the likes of George
Morris and Albert Gallatin, and postwar work from Mark Rothko.
Atlanta Botanical Garden
GARDENS
( 404-876-5859;
www.atlantabotanicalgarden.org
; 1345 Piedmont Ave NE; adult/child $18.95/
12.95; 9am-5pm Tue-Sun, to 7pm Apr-Oct)
In the northwest corner of Piedmont Park, the
stunning 30-acre botanical garden has a Japanese garden, winding paths and the amazing
Fuqua Orchid Center.
Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
LANDMARK
( 404-249-7015;
www.margaretmitchellhouse.com
;
990 Peachtree St, at 10th St; adult/student/
child $13/10/8.50; 10am-5:30pm Mon-Sat, noon-5:30pm Sun)
A shrine to the author of
Gone With the Wind
. Mitchell wrote her epic in a small apartment in the basement of this
historic house, though nothing inside it actually belonged to her.
Piedmont Park
PARK
(
www.piedmontpark.org
)
A glorious, rambling urban park and the setting of many cultural
and music festivals. The park has fantastic bike paths, and a Saturday
Green Market
.
Skate Escape
CYCLING
( 404-892-1292;
www.skateescape.com
;
1086 Piedmont Ave NE)
Rents out bicycles (from $6
per hour) and in-line skates ($6 per hour). It also has tandems ($12 per hour) and moun-
tain bikes ($25 for three hours).
