Slip sliding away on the tubing run at Snow Mountain Park. (Photo: Dave Bender)
Residents of Atlanta are not accustomed to snowy winters. But now anybody in the area who wants a day of snow play can head to Stone Mountain Park.
The park has opened its first "Snow Mountain Park," with three football fields of snow, a 400-foot hill with 11 tubing runs and a 30,0000-square-foot play area.
The attraction uses water from Stone Mountain Lake that is filtered and then turned into snow using the same types of snowmaking machines that ski resorts use. As the snow melts, it drains back to Stone Mountain Lake.
The snow park opened Dec. 31 and is scheduled to remain open weekends through March 1.
The controversial attraction was canceled last year when critics balked at the event in the midst of a crushing drought in the state.
The Park had begun making the artificial snow mountain on the same day Governor Sonny Perdue urged Georgians to take “shorter showers” to conserve water.
(AP)
