Ben Burton Park
Ben Burton Park is a park in Clarke County, Georgia which is located on Mitchell Bridge Road. Ben Burton Park is situated nearby to the neighborhood Westchester, as well as near Forest Heights.- Opening hours: sunrise—sunset
- Type: Park
- Address: 615 Mitchell Bridge Road, Athens, GA 30606
Places of Interest
Highlights include Carnegie Library Building and Piedmont Athens Regional.
Carnegie Library Building
Library
Photo: RFoxx, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Carnegie Library Building is an historic building in Athens, Georgia. It was one of many such libraries donated by Andrew Carnegie which were named Carnegie Library after him. Carnegie Library Building is situated 2 miles east of Ben Burton Park.
Piedmont Athens Regional
Hospital
Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center is a hospital in Athens, Georgia. The hospital has 427 beds, a trauma center, and a neonatal intensive care unit. Piedmont Athens Regional is situated 2½ miles east of Ben Burton Park.
Georgia Square Mall
Shopping center
Photo: Etittle1978, Public domain.
Georgia Square Mall is a shopping mall located in Athens, Georgia, in the United States. Its clientele includes relatively few students attending the nearby University of Georgia, catering primarily to local residents of the Athens area. Georgia Square Mall is situated 2 miles southwest of Ben Burton Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Normaltown and Five Points.
Normaltown
Neighborhood
Normaltown is a neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, by the Athens Regional Medical Center and named for the State Normal School formerly located there. It was the first area of Athens to be wired for electricity after the completion of the Mitchell Bridge hydroelectric plant in 1896. Normaltown is situated 2 miles east of Ben Burton Park.
Five Points
Neighborhood
Five Points is a retail corridor and neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, centered on the intersection of Milledge Avenue and Lumpkin Street. It occupies the South-Southwest edge of the University of Georgia campus. Five Points is situated 3½ miles southeast of Ben Burton Park.
Athens
Athens is a vibrant college town of 127,000 people in the Classic Heartland region of Georgia. Athens is most popular in the late summer and fall when students, families of students or college football fans visit the University of Georgia.
Ben Burton Park
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Clarke County, Georgia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.9602° or 33° 57′ 37″ northLongitude
-83.43969° or 83° 26′ 23″ westElevation
623 feet (190 metres)Named after
Ben W. BurtonOpen location code
865RXH66+34OpenStreetMap ID
way 181093945OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkGeoNames ID
4181950
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Localities in the Area
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