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Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain /

Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain

6.2 mi, 219 ft, sunrise 6:43 AM, scattered, 73°F

  • 4th slowest pace of 116 timed hikes, 22:23 /mi.
  • Sunrise 13 minutes later than on July 4, 2026.
  • 11°F warmer than the median of 146 logged hikes.
Railroad tracks curving through summer woods along the Cherokee Trail, a deer standing beside the rails
Camera
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
Focal
46 mm eq.
Aperture
f/1.4
Shutter
1/180
ISO
50
Taken
8:09 AM
Sunrise
86 min after

What the Watch Saw

The Numbers

6.16 miDistance
219 ftElevation Gain249 ft loss
2h 17mMoving Time22:23 /mi
2h 28mElapsed6:28 AM to 8:56 AM
1,060 ftHigh Pointlow 878 ft
6:43 AMSunrisecivil dawn 6:15 AM, bearing 66°

Elevation from the watch: 5-point median, then only climbs over 3 m count. Moving time drops stretches under 1 km/h.

Where It Went

Route and Profile

Route map of Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain on July 25, 2026

8,730 GPS points, drawn from 310 of them. Pins mark where the photos were taken.

Download the GPX (925 KB): the recorded track, heart rate removed. Open data, CC BY 4.0.

Elevation profile of Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain on July 25, 2026

Elevation in feet against distance in miles. The dashed line is where the track was at sunrise. Pins mark where the photos were taken.

Mile splits
Mile Passed Split Climb
1 6:54 AM 25:51 20 ft
2 7:19 AM 25:39 80 ft
3 7:42 AM 23:16 89 ft
4 8:07 AM 24:08 20 ft
5 8:31 AM 24:41 0 ft
6 8:53 AM 21:53 10 ft
6.2 8:56 AM 3:18 0 ft

Each mile as the watch recorded it: the clock at the marker, the time it took with stops included, and the climb inside it. The marked row is the one the sun came up in.

The Ground

Route in Relief

The route of July 25, 2026 on Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain drawn on a relief model of the terrain, seen from the south-southeast and lit from the east-northeast

Terrain from USGS 3DEP at 10 m, drawn at 2x vertical scale with contours every 40 ft, seen from the south-southeast. Lit from where the sun stood at 7:54 AM, when the walk reached its highest point: bearing 75°, 13° above the horizon. The green line is the recording draped on the terrain, dotted where the ground hides it (15 percent of the track from this angle). Drawn when the entry was made; nothing runs in the browser.

At Sunrise

Conditions at Sunrise

73°FTemperature
42%Cloud Coverscattered, high cloud 88%
5 mphWindgusts 11
99%Humiditydew point 73°F
0.03 inPrecipitation
987 hPaPressure
Low 1%
Mid 41%
High 88%

Cloud cover here is the low and middle layers together, the cloud that hides the sun. High cloud is what a sunrise lights up, so it is counted on its own. Open-Meteo archive (ERA5 and IFS analysis), 7:00 AM.

More From the Top

More Frames

The park's green and yellow diesel locomotive 6143 with its open-sided cars behind, standing on the track beside the pines
Camera
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
Focal
69 mm eq.
Aperture
f/2.4
Shutter
1/120
ISO
50
Taken
8:41 AM
Sunrise
118 min after

In the Pack

What Came Along

What was in service on this date, by the dates on the gear page. Buy links are affiliate links; see the disclosure.

The full kit, with the mornings and miles on each item.

Other Years

This Morning, Other Years

The nearest logged morning to this date in each other year, within two weeks, from this trail when it has one.

  • Closest weather: (compare). By cloud in three layers, humidity, temperature and time of year.