Behold! Pine Lake, DeKalb County's diamond in the rough
And yes, the city of approximately 620 people actually has a lake
- Pecanne Log
Pecanne Log, a noted chronicler of metro Atlanta's charms and curiosities, devotes the most recent chapter of her "suburban explorer" to Pine Lake, DeKalb County's smallest city. Yes, the tiny, quaint lake community of approximately 620 people is an actual city. (It's eerily similar to Mountain Park, another slice of nature hidden in the middle of suburbia. What started as a weekend retreat for city folk hoping to escape such urban nuisances as trolley bells and tuberculosis is now home to, according to the world's most accurate encyclopedia, a small population that includes artists and musicians who live in charming little bungalows. Or as Pecanne Log affectionately calls them, "grown-up tree houses." Your humble scribe and his ladyfriend on Saturday visited Pine Lake, fell in love with the city, and considered selling the Villa Rica McMansion to start a new life in the woods. View Pecanne Log's post for more info about this wonderful slice o' heaven.