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Snow Mountain returns to Stone Mountain Park

Snow Mountain project manager, Paul Creasy describes making snow at Stone Mountain. Video by John Spink/AJC
By John Spink
Oct 13, 2016

After summer like temperatures finally cooling off - the park continues to call for a 100 percent chance of snow daily.

Stone Mountain Park officially began the months-long process to open its ninth season of Snow Mountain just prior to Thanksgiving on the "Laser Lawn."

360 tons of snow is made daily from water drawn from Stone Mountain Lake in an environmentally friendly process.

Construction of scaffoldings for the 20 snow tubing lanes is underway.

Early-season tickets are now available via StoneMountainPark.com; Snow Mountain opens Nov. 19 and operates through Feb. 26th.

Darrel Corradino (right), his daughter Cali and son Coby ride a family sized tube down Snow Mountain inside Stone Mountain Park on Saturday, November 24, 2012. Snow Mountain has 20, 400 foot lanes for tubing, smaller tubing lanes for young children and a snow playground to build snowmen and forts.

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