Stone Mountain mountain until it was purchased by the State of Georgia in the 1950s. Martin Luther King, Jr. mentioned the monument in his 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C., when he said "let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!" During the 1996 Summer Olympics, Stone Mountain Park provided venues for Olympic events in tennis, archery and track cycling. The venues for archery and cycling were temporary and are now part of the songbird and habitat trail. Some of the outdoor scenes for the Netflix series "Stranger Things" were filmed in the park. According to George Weiblen's annotated
Indian Mountain State Park a marshy floodplain approximately wide. Jellico occupies the northeastern part of this plain, and extends up the slopes of the valley's northernmost hills. Indian Mountain State Park occupies the northwestern half of the valley between Jellico and the base of Indian Mountain. Elk Creek splits Indian Mountain State Park into eastern and western halves. The western half is dominated by the Indian Mountain Lake, which spans the base of Indian Mountain and forms the southern and western boundary of the park's campground. Ballard Lake, a large pond slightly smaller than Indian Mountain Lake, dominates the park's eastern section. Several smaller