Museum · Georgia
The Depot
The Depot is a museum in Georgia, at a modelled elevation of 277 m. Bear Mountain stands 700 m to the north, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Acworth Depot Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away.
What to expect
- Operated by
- The City of Acworth
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
Coordinates34.06569, -84.67633
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Acworth Depot Park: 0.0 mi
- Doyal Hill Park: 0.2 mi
- Frana Brown Park: 0.2 mi
- Logan Farm Park: 0.3 mi
- Cauble Park: 0.5 mi
Historic sites: 60
- Veterans Memorial at Patriots Point: 0.6 mi
- An Unknown Hero: 3.6 mi
- Allatoona Pass: 4.0 mi
- Battle of Allatoona: 4.0 mi
- Piece of the Berlin Wall: 5.5 mi
Peaks
- Pine Mountain: 5.6 mi
- Signal Mountain: 5.6 mi
- Red Top Mountain: 6.8 mi
- Vineyard Mountain: 7.1 mi
- Lost Mountain: 8.2 mi
Museums: 40
- Rosenwald School: 0.2 mi
- Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History: 4.6 mi
- The Museum of History and Holocaust Education: 6.3 mi
- Etowah Indian Mounds Historic Site Museum: 8.6 mi
- Museum Store: 9.7 mi
Gardens: 22
- Acworth Community Garden: 0.4 mi
- Hammock Lounge/Garden - West 22: 4.3 mi
- Smith-Gilberrt Gardens: 4.7 mi
- Cherokee Garden: 7.8 mi
- Reconnecting Our Roots Community Garden: 10.7 mi
Attractions: 22
- LakePoint Station: 5.6 mi
- old 1-cylinder engine: 13.5 mi
- Sweet Eloise: 14.1 mi
- Old Car City USA: 14.8 mi
- Creekside Farms: 17.6 mi
Artworks: 20
- Welcome Home: 0.2 mi
- Balancing Birds: 4.7 mi
- Spaceship Earth: 5.5 mi
- Joy^2: 10.6 mi
- Big Little Chickens: 10.6 mi
Beaches: 6
- Upper Tanyard Creek Swimming Beach: 1.9 mi
- Bartow Beach: 7.8 mi
- Bridgemill PuttPutt: 11.2 mi
- BM Fort: 11.2 mi
- Bridgemill Beach: 11.2 mi
Picnic sites: 3
- Cooper Branch Day Use Area #1: 8.0 mi
- Cooper Branch Day Use Area #2: 8.1 mi
- East Cobb Park pavilion: 14.2 mi
Waterfalls: 3
- Allatoona Falls: 9.9 mi
- High Shoals Falls: 13.7 mi
- Vickery Creek Falls: 18.7 mi
Ghost towns: 1
- Allatoona: 3.6 mi
Nature reserves: 1
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.4 miles of The Depot. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bear Mountain | N 5° | 700 m | 17.2 mi |
| Pine Log Mountain | N 6° | 689 m | 17.7 mi |
| Cagle Mountain | NNE 20° | 582 m | 24.3 mi |
| Hanging Mountain | N 357° | 581 m | 16.1 mi |
| Kennesaw Mountain | SE 138° | 543 m | 8.3 mi |
| Oakey Mountain | NNE 16° | 514 m | 22.8 mi |
| Dry Pond Mountain | NNE 18° | 501 m | 22.4 mi |
| Sweat Mountain | E 90° | 500 m | 12.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:43 | 19:18 | 19:51 |
| June solstice | 06:28 | 20:17 | 20:54 |
| September equinox | 07:27 | 19:04 | 19:37 |
| December solstice | 07:41 | 16:56 | 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, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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