Skip to content
Mixroutes
South Atlanta
Neighborhoods of Atlanta in Fulton County, Georgia, United States

South Atlanta

South Atlanta is an officially defined neighborhood of the city of Atlanta within the city's south side.

Plan a trip to South Atlanta→From Birmingham

It is bounded on the northeast by the railroad and the Chosewood Park neighborhood; on the northwest by the railroad and the BeltLine and the Peoplestown neighborhood, on the west by High Point and the Villages at Carver, and on the south mostly by Turman Street and the Lakewood Heights neighborhood.

Get in

Getting to South Atlanta

MARTA East/West Line stops at King Center Station. Interstate 75, Interstate 20, and Freedom Parkway provide access by car. To get to Grant Park, take MARTA Bus #397 from King Memorial Station. By car, exit from I-20 at Blvd SE.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Chick-fil-A Home Office Backstage Tour

    5200 Buffington Road.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Cellairis Amphitheatre
  2. 02
    Oakland Cemetery

    Historic graveyard (established 1850) which is the burial site of Margaret Mitchell, Bobby Jones, and many Civil War soldiers.

  3. 03
    Zoo Atlanta

    This zoo specializes in primates and African animals but also has Giant Pandas, Bornean Sumatran orangutans, Asian small-clawed otters, and a children's zoo.

  4. 04
    Starlight Drive-In Theatre and Flea Market

    Drive-in movie theater that also hosts a swap meet every Saturday and Sunday.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Daddy D'z: The Bar-B-Que Joynt

    Excellent barbecue in a small building with a lot of character.

  2. 02
    Ria's Bluebird

    Hip breakfast restaurant, voted "best pancakes in world" by NY Times.

How locals move

Getting around South Atlanta the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: BerryJ (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.