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Southern Railway's 1918 facility, named Peachtree Station but known locally as Brookwood Station, has been Atlanta's only long-distance passenger rail stop since 1970. Amtrak took over Southern's Crescent route in the '70s, which (as of 2015) continues to operate between New Orleans and N.Y. City .
The BeltLine, a former rail corridor that forms a 22 mi (35 km) loop around Atlanta's core, has been transformed into a series of parks, connected by a multi-use trail, increasing Atlanta's park space by 40%. [356] Atlanta offers resources and opportunities for amateur and participatory sports and recreation.
The park is the location of the iconic Phoenix Memorial, which memorializes Atlanta's rise from the ashes of the Civil War. [37] Built as a legacy of the 1996 Olympic Games , Centennial Olympic Park , located on 21-acre (85,000 m 2 ) area of Downtown, is the largest downtown park in the United States developed in the last 25 years.
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The statue has since been moved to a location in midtown Atlanta. [4] In the late 1990s, the Carnegie Education Pavilion was moved to the park, where it currently still stands. [4] [5] In 2011, the government of Atlanta officially renamed the plaza in the park the Xernona Clayton Plaza in honor of civil rights leader Xernona Clayton. [6]
Freedom Park is one of the largest city parks in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The park forms a cross shape with the axes crossing at the Carter Center . The park stretches west-east from Parkway Drive, just west of Boulevard , to the intersection with the north-south BeltLine Eastside Trail , to Candler Park , and north-south from Ponce de ...
Southside Park is, at 211 acres (0.85 km 2), the largest park in the City of Atlanta. [1] It is located along Jonesboro Road in the southern part of the city just north of the Perimeter (I-285) . Its rank as the city's largest park is set to be eclipsed by the new Westside Park at 351 acres (1.42 km 2 ).