While everyone has been swooning over the BeltLine, Buckhead has been hard at work, quietly creating its own 5.2-mile multi-use trail, and now, the first segment of the $12 million project is finally available for the public. The open section of the trail runs along (as its name would suggest) GA-400 from Old Ivy Road to Lenox Road but the completed project will connect Loridans Drive all the way to the BeltLine’s Peachtree Creek spur trail. Eventually, there’s talk of using it to connect to everything from the BeltLine’s Eastside Trail and Chastain Park Trail to Sandy Springs and possibly even Alpharetta, with green spaces, dog parks, and art along the way. Imagine being able to bike all those places without contending with Atlanta traffic! Game changer.



When last I checked out PATH400 (a project headed by the PATH Foundation, Buckhead Community Improvement District, and Livable Buckhead), it was just a steep dirt trail next to a busy highway, but Curbed Atlanta took some fresh pics of the newly opened segment, and it looks promising. We’re talking nice new benches, student art, and most importantly, a large sound wall between traffic and runners, walkers, cyclists, and skaters. The grade is still steep (what one runner called “brutal”), so it’s a good thing you’re ready for a workout, right?

This long video about every detail of the project says that once it’s completed, 5,133 residents will be within a five-minute walk of the path, 8,175 within a 10-minute walk, 16,519 within a five-minute bike ride, and 44,272 people will be within a 10-minute bike ride. Its potential to make Atlanta more pedestrian- and cyclist-friendly is pretty exciting.

Phase 2, which will run from Old Ivy and Wieuca roads is expected to be finished by the end of the year.