Across the road from what is today the rather poorly reviewed Enota Retreat on Highway 108 is a fancy, but unnamed roadside spring. The land it sits on was once part of the YMCA Camp Pioneer, which was built in the 1940s and provided summer camp facilities for Atlanta children until 1986. While the old buildings (some apparently built by the CCC) have fallen to dust under the new management at Enota, the spring lives on, still running water out into a metal pipe with a small car pull over for anyone who wants to fill up.
Would I drink out of it? With a filter, yes. The water is running through a real spring head, with a real pipe, off forest land, and it’s located several foot off the ground. Should be a real winner if you like your spring water.
How you get there: It’s a pull over off highway 108, right across from the campground at about 34.840140,-83.773268, though my GPS was having trouble nailing it down I’ll admit.
Historic map showing Camp Pioneer and a structure that might be the spring circled in red.
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