Athens - Georgia - Downtown Drive

Lunch hour drive around the city of Athens in Northeast Georgia.
Filmed: June 2020

Athens by the Numbers (2010 Census):
City Population: 115,452
City Area: 118.2 sq mi
Metro Population (Athens-Clarke County, GA): 192,541
CSA Population (Atlanta-Athens-Clarke County-Sandy Springs, GA-AL): 6,054,858

From Wikipedia:
Athens, officially Athens–Clarke County, is a consolidated city–county and college town in the U.S. state of Georgia. Athens lies about 70 miles (110 kilometers) northeast of downtown Atlanta. The University of Georgia, the state's flagship public university and an R1 research institution, is in Athens and contributed to its initial growth. In 1991, after a vote the preceding year, the original City of Athens abandoned its charter to form a unified government with Clarke County, referred to jointly as Athens–Clarke County. As of 2019, the U.S. Census Bureau's estimated population of the consolidated city-county (all of Clarke County except Winterville and a portion of Bogart) was 126,913; the entire county including Winterville and Bogart had a population of 127,064. Athens is the sixth-largest city in Georgia, and the principal city of the Athens metropolitan area, which had a 2017 estimated population of 209,271, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Metropolitan Athens is a component of the larger Atlanta–Athens–Clarke County–Sandy Springs Combined Statistical Area, a trading area.

The city is dominated by a pervasive college town culture and music scene centered in downtown Athens, next to the University of Georgia's North Campus. Major music acts associated with Athens include numerous alternative rock bands such as R.E.M., the B-52's, Widespread Panic, Drive-By Truckers and Neutral Milk Hotel. The city is also known as a recording site for such groups as the Atlanta-based Indigo Girls. The 2020 book, Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture, describes Athens as the model of the indie culture of the 1980s.

The University of Georgia (UGA), the state's flagship public research university, is the oldest and 2nd largest institution of higher learning in Georgia. Founded in 1785, it was the first state-chartered university in the United States.

Points of interest:
Formal garden at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia at the University of Georgia
One of the remaining two double-barreled cannons produced during the American Civil War is here.
The "Tree That Owns Itself", which is now an offspring of the original tree
The Georgia Museum of Art, the official state museum of art, at the University of Georgia
The State Botanical Garden of Georgia at the University of Georgia
The University of Georgia Campus & Arboretum
St. Mary's Steeple, home of the First R.E.M. show and site for newly founded renovation.
The Globe bar was voted by Esquire magazine as the third top bar in America in 2007.
Founded in 1955, Allen's is Athens' oldest bar and grill despite closing in 2004, re-opening in 2007, and closing again in November 2011.
Sandy Creek Park.