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East Point

East Point is a suburban city located southwest of Atlanta in Fulton County, Georgia, United States.

East Point
East Point · Dietmar Rabich
The place

East Point is a suburban city located southwest of Atlanta in Fulton County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 38,358. The city name is derived from being at the opposite end of the former Atlanta and West Point Railroad from West Point.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around East Point

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Morehouse College

    Morehouse College is a private, historically black, men's liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Anchored by its main campus of 61 acres near downtown Atlanta, the college has a variety of residential dorms and academic buildings east of Ashview Heights.

    9.9 km · historically black men's liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia, United States · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Georgia's 5th congressional district

    Georgia's 5th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Georgia. The district was represented by Democrat John Lewis from January 3, 1987, until his death on July 17, 2020.

    7.6 km · U.S. House of Representatives district · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Gateway Center Arena

    Gateway Center Arena at College Park is a 100,000 square foot multi-purpose arena in College Park, Georgia. It is the home venue of the College Park Skyhawks of the NBA G League and was home to the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association.

    2.7 km · indoor arena in suburban Atlanta · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Atlanta Metropolitan State College

    Atlanta Metropolitan State College is a public college in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is part of the University System of Georgia.

    7.3 km · college in Atlanta, Georgia, United States · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Perkerson Park

    Perkerson Park is a 50-acre park in the Capitol View and Sylvan Hills neighborhoods of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It includes a disc golf course, six tennis courts, basketball half-court, splash pads, an elaborate playground, and recreational fields, all under the shady canopy of huge oak trees.

    7.2 km · park in Georgia, US · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Lakewood Amphitheatre

    The Lakewood Amphitheatre, originally Coca-Cola Lakewood Amphitheatre, is a concert venue located in Atlanta, which opened in 1989. The amphitheatre seats 18,920.

    7.8 km · concert venue in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Evangeline Booth College

    The Salvation Army Evangeline Booth College, or EBC, is a theological college administered by The Salvation Army. The school is located in Atlanta, Georgia and is named after General Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army.

    8.7 km · theological college in Atlanta, Georgia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    South-View Cemetery

    South-View Cemetery is a historic African-American-founded cemetery located approximately 15 minutes from downtown Atlanta, Georgia. An active operational cemetery on over 100 acres of land, it is the oldest African-American cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia and the oldest African-American “non eleemosynary” corporation in the country.

    9.6 km · cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia, US · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Cox College

    Cox College was a private women's college located in College Park, Georgia that operated from 1842 to 1934. Cox College was originally called LaGrange Female Seminary in 1842 when it opened in LaGrange, Georgia.

    2.5 km · private women's college in Georgia from 1842 to 1934 · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Delta Flight Museum

    The Delta Flight Museum is an aviation and corporate museum located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, near the airline's main hub, Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The museum is housed in two 1940s-era Delta Air Lines aircraft hangars at Delta's headquarters, designated a Historic Aerospace Site in 2011.

    4.7 km · aviation museum in Atlanta, Georgia · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to East Point

Airports
Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta (ATL), 5 km · Birmingham-Shuttlesworth (BHM), 212 km · McGhee Tyson (TYS), 242 km
Stations
Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, 5.3 km · The Plane Train, 4.7 km · West Lake station, 9.5 km · Airport, 3.9 km · College Park station, 2.8 km
  • Birmingham → East Point
    6630 km · quickest by air, 14h 58m · £830–1,280
  • Knoxville/Maryville → East Point
    256 km · quickest by road, 5h 14m · $27–37
  • Nashville → East Point
    349 km · quickest by air, 3h 57m · $140–210
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for East Point

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for East Point. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAir charter companies including Priority Jet and Georgia Jet Charter offer access to a variety of planes based at Atlanta metro area airports, with aircraft ranging from economical single and twin engine planes, to modern business jets and luxury Gulfstreams.
  • Go nextVisitors can hike up the mountain or take a cable car to the top.
  • Go nextIn addition, the Chattahoochee Nature Center in Roswell offers education environmental programs, canoe trips and other recreational activities.

From Wikivoyage: Atlanta, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    1,267 km
  2. 02
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,712 km
  3. 03
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,774 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    1,806 km
  5. 05
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,938 km

If you know how people move in East Point – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to East Point

East Point is 12 km from Atlanta, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • College Parkcity in Fulton and Clayton counties, Georgia, United States2.7 km
  • South Atlantahuman settlement in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America9.3 km
  • Red Oakhuman settlement in the United States of America6 km
  • Mozley Park Historic Districtneighborhood and historic district in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America9.9 km
  • Sandtowntown in Georgia6.5 km
  • Capitol Viewhuman settlement in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America7.2 km