Peaceful Afternoons on Arabia Mountain

One of the best things about moving to a new city is discovering the hidden gems and peaceful nooks to ‘call your own’. These are the things that begin to transform a new place into a new home. Fortunately for us, we found a one in the local Atlanta park, Arabia Mountain. Unfortunately for us, we had to say goodbye to it shortly after its discovery due to our big move across the country, but I’ll get into all that in a later post.

In order to honor such a lovely park that captured both Kevin and I’s heart, the following are some photos and anecdotes from a couple of afternoons we spent relaxing at Arabia Mountain.

A Local Park in Atlanta

Arabia Mountain is a monadnock located in DeKalb County, Georgia, an area at the edge of Atlanta, Georgia. A monadnock is “an isolated rock hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain” –Wikipedia. Arabia Mountain is one of three monadnocks in the greater Atlanta area. The other two are Stone Mountain and Panola Mountain.

This local park in Atlanta is free to visitors and is open 7 days a week from dawn to dusk. After a friend suggested we check it out, Arabia quickly became one of Kevin and I’s favorite places to spend a peaceful afternoon. The mountain offers countless nooks and crannies to explore giving you a sense of solitude even with the other daily visitors.

Valentine’s Day on Arabia Mountain

Kevin and I are not the type to do a whole lot on Valentine’s Day. Some years we decide to do something and plan an outing and other years we completely forget until the day of and just make dinner and hang out eating Valentine’s Day theme candy. In the moments that we feel up to planning something, we typically end up picking a local park and spend the day hanging out outside soaking in the weather with a good book and maybe a snack.

About two years ago, we spent the day exploring a local Miami park that we never had the chance to visit in the years prior, Matheson Hammock. For Valentine’s Day 2016, Kevin and I headed to Arabia Mountain to find some peace and solitude among the rocks. We set up our hammock and relaxed for the afternoon, reading books and soaking up the sun.

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