Red Top Mountain State Park is a 1,950-acre park on the shores of Lake Allatoona. The mountain gets its distinctive name from the iron-rich red clay soil that covers the area, giving the hilltops a reddish hue visible from a distance.
Name Origin: Named for the vivid red color of its iron-oxide-rich soil — Cherokee and early settlers alike noted the distinctly red clay hilltops that stood out against the surrounding Georgia landscape.