Pack up your golf clubs and tennis rackets and get active in nature as you play a game of golf or tennis at Atlanta Memorial Park. The park stretches along Peachtree Creek, where the pivotal Battle of Peachtree Creek took place during the Civil War in 1864. While exploring the area, you'll see various historical markers telling the story of this beautiful park where history meets the great outdoors.
Get your fill of nature and its greatest creatures at the Cochran Mill Nature Center. The center provides education on a variety of topics involving animals, their habitats, and our environment. Cochran Mill also aids with wildlife rehabilitation, taking in injured animals and nursing them back to health when possible, and permanently housing them when unable to return to the wild. If you're a true animal and nature lover looking for an experience with the wild outside of the zoo, you won't want to pass up a visit to this attraction.
Keep your eye on the schedule at Lakewood Amphitheatre at Lakewood. This venue can accommodate up to 19,000 people and consistently brings some of the hottest names in entertainment to its stage. Past performances have included bands like Kings of Leon, Dave Matthews Band, Coldplay, John Mayer, Depeche Mode, and Mary J. Blige.