Buford Highway

This guide to Buford Highway in Atlanta follows North Fork Peachtree Creek, the waterway paved over and boxed in for decades beneath the strip malls of this immigrant food corridor. It traces the flash floods that have shut the road down more than once, including damage from Hurricane Helene's remnants in 2024, and the federal gauge now watching the creek like a pulse. You'll hear about the greenway crews who began carving out its banks in 2019, hauling out truckloads of trash and old tires. Listen for the sound of running water between the buildings before you spot it.