Cable car · Stone Mountain, United States
Summit Skyride
Summit Skyride is a cable car near Stone Mountain, United States. It climbs 215 m over 697 m, from 290 m to 505 m above sea level. Between its 3 pylons, the cable runs up to about 147 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
86/100 · Scary
By the numbers, Summit Skyride is scarier than 86% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 9 of 121 in the United States.
- Highest above the ground: about 147 m, higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza (139 m), 330 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 599 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 19°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 359 m of the 697 m ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Summit Skyride is near Stone Mountain, United States, at 290 m above sea level (33.81128° N, 84.14193° W). From there it runs 697 m up to the top station at 505 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: Copernicus GLO-30, 30 m. Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Data as of 2026-10-31.