Atlanta Beltline Lantern Parade

Join us as we participate in the 5th Annual Atlanta Beltline Lantern Parade. We hope you either make or buy a lantern. There are workshops available through beltline.org where you can make it ahead of time (please be sure to sign up for these on your own), you can order a kit to make one through beltlline.org (ships starting August 5 - that's why registration opens on the 4th) or make one following online instructions or using a kit which can be found online. However you aquire a lantern is up to you - make, beg, borrow or steal. Your TLs are leaving that one up to you.  

Here is the plan: We'll leave from the Charles Allen entrance at Piedmont Park at 6:30pm. We will walk approximately 2 miles to the start of the Parade which will start at Irwin and Krog. There will be a tailgate party there in the parking lot. The parade departs that location at 8:30pm. The parade route takes the same path back (the Beltline) to Piedmont Park so you will end up where we parked. The Beltline folks have suggested hanging out on the grassy area around Park Tavern as we enter Piedmont Park. You are welcome to bring a blanket and hang out and see what kind of fun stuff is going on. The AOC event "officially" ends when the parade ends. Party all night if you want!

Please go in to this with the following attitude: we are going to have FUN. This is going to be a blast. Please be willing to roll with the punches. We don't know what the restroom situation will be (but I'm sure there will be some available), don't know what the beverage/refreshement situation will be (bring your own?). Please keep a flexible attitude and please know it is very likely that someone will get separated from the group and there is no way the TLs can have eyes on everyone or can be accountable for everyone. This will be a very crowded event and we can't come looking for you.

More info on the Atlanta Beltline here:

http://beltline.org/trails/eastside-trail/

More info on the Atlanta Beltline Lantern Parade:  sign up for lantern making class or order a beltline lantern kit here. Do it soon.

http://art.beltline.org/lantern-parade/

This is a decent map of Piedmont Park. Charles Allen entrance is #17:

http://www.piedmontparkartsfestival.com/PPAF_Conte nt/piedmont_park_map_2009.pdf

Coordinates for the 10th Street and Charles Allen Dr NE entrance of Piedmont Park. Meet us at this entrance. We will leave at on time whether you are there or not. Please give yourself plenty of time to park and walk to the entrance to meet us. Parking is available for free along most of the residential roads near Piedmont Park as well as alongside the park itself.

You can also park in the lot next to Park Tavern for a fee. It's a short walk to the Charles Allen entrance of the park. More details here: http://www.parktavern.com/contact/

Open maps.google.com and paste the bold line below in to the search bar. Then chose Satelite View. It will give you a bird's eye view of where to meet.

33.78187, -84.37286

There is a restroom near the Charles Allen Dr NE entrance. Use it at your own risk. :)