Atlanta has a new and very large park.
The city signed the paperwork Monday to buy the Lake Charlotte Nature Preserve, more than 200 acres of woods in southeast Atlanta.
It’s a deep forest, larger than Piedmont Park, and a place that locals had long worried would be turned into a landfill. The forest has been mostly left alone for decades, though the lake in its name has been drained. Now, it will stay a forest, open up for public access, and serve as a huge piece in a possible future network of parks and trails in southeast Atlanta.
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