ELM Festival at Allatoona Creek Park to feature races and games

Cobb is the first Georgia county to install emergency location markers on hundreds of trails across the county. The mission of the ELM Program is to ensure emergency dispatchers and first responders are able to quickly locate trail users.

The ELM Festival will be held 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 10, at Allatoona Creek Park and will include a running race, an enduro bike race, a poker run/ride, bike games, a grass maze challenge, a geocaching/scavenger hunt, a tree identification workshop, fire trucks and equipment and hunter education. Allatoona Creek Park is located at 5690 Old Stilesboro Road NW, Acworth. For more information, visit cobbelm.com or contact John Purcell at john.purcell@cobbcounty.org or 770-528-8825.