Balancing Birds
Balancing Birds is an artwork in Georgia, at a modelled elevation of 331 m. Bear Mountain stands 700 m to the north, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Depot Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. South Fulton Scenic Byway passes 28 miles off. 49 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Material
- steel
How to reach it
- 27.5 mi off the South Fulton Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Depot Park: 0.0 mi
- Gateway Park: 0.1 mi
- Commemorative Park: 0.2 mi
- Camp McDonald Park: 0.2 mi
- Adams Park: 0.4 mi
- Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History: 0.2 mi
- The Museum of History and Holocaust Education: 2.4 mi
- The Depot: 4.7 mi
- Rosenwald School: 4.9 mi
- The Root House Museum and Garden: 5.8 mi
- Spaceship Earth: 2.0 mi
- Welcome Home: 4.9 mi
- Joy^2: 6.0 mi
- Big Little Chickens: 6.0 mi
- Our Town: 6.1 mi
- Piece of the Berlin Wall: 2.0 mi
- Leonidas Polk: 2.9 mi
- Georgia Monument: 3.4 mi
- Dueling Cannons: 3.7 mi
- Robert McAfee House: 3.8 mi
- Smith-Gilberrt Gardens: 1.2 mi
- Hammock Lounge/Garden - West 22: 1.4 mi
- Acworth Community Garden: 5.1 mi
- Cherokee Garden: 5.5 mi
- Reconnecting Our Roots Community Garden: 6.0 mi
- Pine Mountain: 2.9 mi
- Kennesaw Mountain: 3.7 mi
- Little Kennesaw Mountain: 3.9 mi
- Pigeon Hill: 4.1 mi
- Cheatham Hill: 6.1 mi
- Sweet Eloise: 9.4 mi
- LakePoint Station: 10.3 mi
- old 1-cylinder engine: 12.1 mi
- Roswell Mill: 14.7 mi
- Frog Rock: 15.3 mi
- Upper Tanyard Creek Swimming Beach: 6.5 mi
- Bartow Beach: 12.1 mi
- Bridgemill PuttPutt: 12.1 mi
- BM Fort: 12.1 mi
- Bridgemill Beach: 12.1 mi
- Allatoona Falls: 9.7 mi
- Vickery Creek Falls: 14.8 mi
- High Shoals Falls: 16.2 mi
- Anneewakee Falls: 22.9 mi
- Water Wheel: 24.4 mi
- Lynne & Charlie D'Huyvetter Nature Preserve: 11.2 mi
- Cascade Springs Nature Preserve: 22.4 mi
- Lullwater Conservation Garden: 23.2 mi
- Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve: 24.0 mi
- Woodlands Garden: 24.1 mi
- East Cobb Park pavilion: 9.7 mi
- Cooper Branch Day Use Area #1: 12.3 mi
- Cooper Branch Day Use Area #2: 12.5 mi
- Dat Fire Jerk Chicken Up Top Lounge: 22.4 mi
- Allatoona: 8.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Balancing Birds. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bear Mountain | N 354° | 700 m | 20.2 mi |
| Pine Log Mountain | N 356° | 689 m | 20.7 mi |
| Hanging Mountain | NNW 347° | 581 m | 19.6 mi |
| Kennesaw Mountain | SSE 148° | 543 m | 3.7 mi |
| Dry Pond Mountain | N 8° | 501 m | 24.6 mi |
| Sweat Mountain | ENE 71° | 500 m | 9.6 mi |
| Little Kennesaw Mountain | SSE 156° | 488 m | 3.9 mi |
| Little Pine Log Mountain | NNW 344° | 487 m | 19.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:43 | 19:17 | 19:50 |
| June solstice | 06:28 | 20:17 | 20:54 |
| September equinox | 07:27 | 19:04 | 19:37 |
| December solstice | 07:41 | 16:55 | 17:34 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 42 | 45 | 53 | 61 | 69 | 76 | 79 | 79 | 73 | 62 | 52 | 44 |
| Precip in | 4.9 | 5.1 | 5.1 | 4.3 | 4.0 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 3.4 | 4.4 | 5.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dallas 7 NE, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/13108058264
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