Pedal Past Murals, Mausoleums and Queen Anne Victorians in Atlanta
A guided ride through the neighborhoods east of downtown, where the street art and the 1880s brickwork share a block.
Bicycle Tours of Atlanta starts this ride at a loft building on Auburn Avenue, two blocks east of the Historic Martin Luther King Jr. District. Two and a half hours, seven scheduled stops, one guide talking the whole way.
The seven stops account for about seventy minutes, which leaves most of the outing as actual riding. Bikes, helmets, water and snacks come with the ticket, and the listing averages 4.98 across 446 reviews.
The order is fixed. Oakland Cemetery, Krog Street Tunnel, the BeltLine's Eastside Trail, Inman Park, the Jackson Street Bridge, the King park on Auburn Avenue, then Cabbagetown. Each stop runs about ten minutes, long enough for a story and a photograph.
The riding happens on neighborhood streets and multi-use path, and the guiding is in English.
Fall in Love with Atlanta Bike TourBicycle Tours of Atlanta · 150 minutes · Bikes, helmets, water and snacks includedwww.viator.comThree Stops Where the Walls Do the Talking
Krog Street Tunnel is the hinge of the route. The operator calls it ground zero for the city's graffiti scene, an ever-changing tunnel connecting three historic neighborhoods, and one of the most photographed places in Atlanta. Nothing on those walls stays put, and the tunnel you ride through is its own edition.
Further along, a portrait of civil rights leader and activist Hosea Williams, painted by local muralist Fabian Williams, covers a full building wall. The Jackson Street Bridge stop is the skyline frame, the one the operator tells guests to have cameras ready for. Viewers of The Walking Dead recognize it as the road Rick rides into an emptied city in the opening scene.
The Mill Village, the Trail, and the Fight Over an Interstate
Cabbagetown went up in 1881 alongside the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill, and its northern border wall now carries large murals by local artists. The Eastside Trail stretch is a multi-use path lined with commissioned and rogue art, the Old Fourth Ward Skate Park, the miniature doors of TinyDoorsATL, and murals under the Freedom Parkway Bridge.
Inman Park, the city's first planned community, holds tree-lined streets of Queen Anne houses built in the late 1800s. The guide's version covers the people who built them and the 1970s fight that kept an interstate from cutting through.
The King Park Stop Points You Back for a Second Trip
Ten minutes at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park covers the shape of the site, and the guide's own instruction is to return for it. The birth home, the burial site, historic Ebenezer Church and the King Center each want their own hours on foot.
Oakland Cemetery works the other way around. You ride its lanes past mausoleums and Victorian monuments, and the operator's caption for the grounds notes that they now host more weddings each year than burials.
Nine and Up, Moderate Legs, English Only
Riders nine and older can join, and anyone under eighteen books with an adult. The operator asks for at least a moderate level of physical fitness and flags the ride as a poor fit for anyone with poor cardiovascular health.
One booking takes up to fourteen riders. Confirmation is instant, bookings close twelve hours before the start time, and a full refund needs twenty-four hours' notice. The operator can also call a ride off for weather. Gratuity sits outside the ticket price.
The meeting place is the front of the Studioplex building on Auburn Avenue in Old Fourth Ward, two blocks east of the Historic Martin Luther King Jr. District, and directional signs stand at the entrance. Arrive fifteen minutes before the listed start time. Public transportation runs nearby.
From that door the route heads for the cemetery gates.