The Bellwood Quarry may not be open to the public -- unless you're Katniss Everdeen or a zombie-fleeing refugee -- but it looks great from the sky, at least as seen in new footage taken by American Drone Industries.

The Feb. 8 video shows a drone's survey of the quarry and some of the surrounding land, including a panoramic look at the namesake 400-foot hole, which the city of Atlanta will soon convert into a reservoir during development of the city's largest park.

City officials told WABE that the centerpiece reservoir will hold more than a billion gallons of Chattahoochee River water.

"The drone was flown approximately 80 feet from the surface of the water," according to the video's description.

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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