115 mornings here since August 17, 2024, the latest Sep 20, 2026. 22 of them photographed from this spot. 68 percent clear at sunrise: 78 of the 115 with a cloud reading had low and mid cloud at or under 30 percent.

From This Spot

The Best Mornings Here

The 10 highest color index photographs taken from this spot, out of 21 photographed mornings. Each tile links to its morning.

Looking out from the dock across Stone Mountain Lake, blue sky and a band of lit cloud over the far trees

Aug 2, 2026 color index 56.5

Gold sun breaking through mist on the lake after sunrise, a wooded island in silhouette, fog lying on the water

Oct 12, 2024 color index 56.2

Blue and gold cloud over the far shore after sunrise, mirrored in the lake, a tree at the top right

Oct 5, 2024 color index 52.1

Pink and red cloud streaks across the whole sky before sunrise, mirrored in the lake, the far shore a dark line

Jun 6, 2026 color index 49.3

Blue sky with swept gold cloud after sunrise, a dock in the foreground, the lake rippled

Sep 28, 2024 color index 45

Gold and blue dawn over the far shore from a dock, ripples spreading across the lake

Aug 29, 2025 color index 41.5

Sunrise from Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain, September 8, 2024

Sep 8, 2024 color index 40.4

Orange dawn under a bank of purple cloud, the far shore dark, the lake still and mirroring it

Oct 26, 2024 color index 38.8

Stone Mountain and its tower above a wooded shore under blue sky and white cloud, the lake mirroring it

Jun 28, 2025 color index 38.1

Streaks of high cloud lit pink and violet over Stone Mountain Lake at sunrise, the far shore dark, the whole sky repeated in still water

Jun 20, 2026 color index 36

Color Index

Month by Month

Every photographed morning from this spot in its calendar month, pooled across years, with the count under each month. A month with at least 5 photographed mornings gets a bar from its lowest to its highest and a tick at the median; a thinner month shows its dots and no median.

Median color index, highest first: June at 36 (5 mornings), September at 35.9 (5).

Timing

Getting Here for Sunrise

Measured from the recorded tracks, not guessed: the first trackpoint within 100 m of this spot, set against the first point of the track and that morning's sunrise, over 115 mornings.

24 minLot to the Spotmedian walk, 115 mornings

3 minAt the Spotbefore sunrise, median of 115 mornings

1 minLatest That Made Itbefore sunrise, Aug 17, 2024

54 of the 115 mornings reached the spot after sunrise.

The wooden dock on the east shore of Indian Island, facing east across Stone Mountain Lake. Position is the mean of the phone's GPS tags on the photographs taken from it. About 60 m from the shore spot, far enough that the two share no reference.

Position 33.80756, -84.13315, radius 100 m.

On the Trail

Latest Conditions

As of September 20, 2026, from that morning's notes:

A tree that's fallen across the tracks near the carving is still there more than two weeks later, which means the train also hasn't run for those three weeks since the tree first fell.from the notes
West of the carving, the tree that fell over the trail about two months ago is still there.from the notes
Past the hike-up trail, there is a lot of overgrown grass on the path, so always make sure you're wearing tick repellent.from the notes
Water levels seem a little low.from the notes

Last walked September 20, 2026.

Lines are lifted word for word from the notes of the morning named; a line marked noted followed the word "conditions", one marked from the notes was picked out by a keyword. What the notes did not mention is not here, and a morning with no lines is not a report that the trail was clear.

Elsewhere

Around the Log

This spot is on Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain. Every sunrise photograph in the log is on the Sunrises wall, and each year's mornings are colored day by day in the almanac.