MAP: How To Find Your Way Around Dragon Con

A man cosplaying Batman high fives kids along the Dragon Con 2018 parade route in downtown Atlanta, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018.

Cory Hancock / For WABE

This Labor Day weekend, downtown Atlanta will be bustling with superheroes, storm troopers, wizards and zombies. All kinds of cosplayers and convention-goers will fill Atlanta’s streets for the annual multi-genre five-day event called Dragon Con.

Around 85,000 attendees who hail from all 50 states and some foreign countries are expected this year, according to Dragon Con media relations. Events will be held in five Atlanta hotels, two AmericasMart buildings and the event venue, 200 Peachtree, which is new for this year.