Miami Circle Is Where PATH400 Already Does What It Was Built For

"Along Miami Circle, it connects businesses, art and nightlife." That's how Livable Buckhead's Denise Starling described the southern end of the trail in her August 2026 PATH400 update on buckhead.com. She wrote it in a passage about how the trail should "behave like a good guest" and change character from place to place. Around Mountain Way Common the trail is a treetop walk. In the commercial core it's supposed to work as an urban connector. Near Blue Heron and Chastain it will have to stay quiet and restrained.

Most of those versions are still on paper or under construction. The Miami Circle version is built and open. On Saturday, November 21, the street's galleries open their doors together for the free Miami Circle Gallery Stroll, which makes it a good day to walk the one stretch of PATH400 that already ends somewhere worth going.

The trail's loose ends are all scheduled for 2027 or later

Nearly 5 miles of PATH400 are open in Buckhead now, linking neighborhoods, parks, businesses and four MARTA stations. The most recent big opening came in September 2025: the 0.75-mile section between Wieuca Road and Loridans Drive, with the Mountain Way Common bridge, according to Livable Buckhead. Since then the work has been at the edges, and every one of those edges has a date that is still ahead:

1. North of Loridans Drive to the Sandy Springs city limit. Crews are pouring concrete, grading and installing handrails. The Atlanta portion is expected to finish in the first quarter of 2027, but the public opening depends on inspections, landscaping and coordination with Sandy Springs. The two cities are planning a joint opening. Once the Atlanta section and the priority Sandy Springs section both open, PATH400 will run about 7.4 continuous miles toward the Perimeter. The rest of Sandy Springs' work runs longer. The city's project page estimates early 2028 for two of its segments.
2. The Peachtree Park connection. This short link would run from Peachtree Road between the InterContinental Buckhead Atlanta and Embassy Suites, pass briefly through the Peachtree Park neighborhood, and meet the Gordon Bynum Bridge. Construction is expected to start in early 2027 and finish later that year.
3. The southern tie-in to the Atlanta Beltline. Existing sidewalks will be widened into a full pedestrian and bike route with new PATH400 signs, on the same early 2027 schedule. Starling calls the eventual meeting point with the Peachtree Creek Greenway the "angel hair junction."

So the stretch that already links up with the businesses along it is the southern one, running from the Gordon Bynum Bridge down toward Miami Circle.

What the southern stretch passes

Starling's update describes the route plainly. From the Gordon Bynum Bridge, where the existing southern section begins, the trail "continues past the 'Great Blue' Mural and toward Miami Circle, where Eclipse di Luna sits directly along the route."

Eclipse di Luna is at 764 Miami Circle NE. It's a tapas bar with cocktails and live Latin music. It's also where Livable Buckhead held this year's Party on the PATH, its annual fundraiser for the trail. That was Sunday, October 4, and the evening started with a VIP reception at Johnson Lowe Gallery before moving to Eclipse di Luna for tapas and the Atlanta Soul Band. The group raising money for PATH400 holds its biggest night on Miami Circle, a few steps off the trail, and starts it in a gallery. Starling joked about it herself: "We do appreciate it when our infrastructure and fundraising plans cooperate with one another."

What's on the walls November 21

Livable Buckhead lists the Gallery Stroll for Saturday, November 21, from 4 to 7 p.m. It's free. The series runs on the third Saturday of every other month, with more than 10 Miami Circle galleries open and serving refreshments. These exhibitions are scheduled to be up that evening:

• Johnson Lowe Gallery: "The Structure of Ruins: Rush Baker IV," plus the group show "The Second Body." The group show includes work by Anthony Akinbola, Michael David, Thornton Dial, Victoria Dugger, Donald Locke, Isaac Mehki, Jiha Moon, Phuong Nguyen, Masud Olufani, Fahamu Pecou, Steven Seinberg and Vadis Turner. Both shows run September 30 through December 19, 2026. Details on the gallery's site.
• Marcia Wood Gallery: Kim Ouellette's "Emerald Tears," October 24 through November 28, 2026. The gallery describes abstract paintings in acrylic and sumi ink on raw canvas, with thick impasto in some passages and thin stained areas where the canvas shows through.
• Pryor Fine Art: Wendy Chidester, listed as the next show on Pryor's site, on view November 6 through December 4.

A few fall shows close before the stroll, so the weekend of October 31 is the time to catch them. Laura Roebuck's "Creative Crush" at Anne Irwin Fine Art closes October 31. Pryor Fine Art's current listing shows Dusty Griffith's "Contemplative Reflections of Creation" on view through October 31. Thomas Deans Fine Art currently lists "In Light and Air: Paintings by Gwen Wong and Debbie Ezell" through November 2.

The street between the galleries

Miami Circle isn't only galleries, and that's part of why the stroll fills a whole evening. The Shops of Miami Circle directory, updated in late August, lists antiques and design showrooms alongside the art. Among them are Foxglove Antiques Collective, Dearing Antiques, William Word Antiques, Acquisitions, Ansley Interiors, Busatti Villa, Interiors Market, Jubin Rugs, The Lamp Shoppe, Miami Circle Marble, The Mission Motif and Ghenogas Gallery.

The directory's gallery page names Hayes + Stone Contemporary, Pryor Fine Art and Thomas Deans Fine Art. Hayes + Stone also shows up among the association's newest members, so if you haven't been to Miami Circle in a while, that name is new.

Put it together and a November 21 visit can include a gallery opening, an antiques showroom, dinner at a tapas bar and a walk home on the trail, all on one street. This is the stretch Starling had in mind when she wrote about businesses, art and nightlife.

Getting there with the trail as it stands

The gap is the thing to plan around. Peachtree Road is close to the southern trail, but the two don't connect yet. Starling put it this way:

Right now, the commercial core and the existing southern trail sit frustratingly close to one another without actually connecting.

Until the Peachtree Park connection is built, walking from the Peachtree Road side doesn't give you a continuous trail route to the Gordon Bynum Bridge. The PATH Foundation lists Lindbergh Plaza and Lenox Square as main parking and access points for PATH400. It describes the trail as an intermittent route running alongside SR 400 between Peachtree Creek at Piedmont Road and Sandy Springs. The official PATH400 map marks Miami Circle, Lindbergh Center and the trail's access points, and it's worth a look before you head out.

Livable Buckhead says the existing sections stay open during construction, but expect construction signs and occasional temporary closures near work areas. Most of that work is far north of Miami Circle, beyond Loridans Drive.

There's one more reason to go this year. When the Peachtree Park link and the Beltline tie-in are done, the southern stretch will become part of a longer route, from Peachtree Road through Peachtree Park to the bridge and eventually down to the Beltline. For now, the stroll is something people who live along this end of PATH400 can walk to on a Saturday evening. If you're making a Buckhead fall list, our look at what's changing on Buckhead's restaurant row and the Buckhead neighborhood guide can fill in the rest of the weekend.

I keep a running list of the Buckhead dates worth saving, from gallery strolls to trail openings as they're confirmed, and I share it in the Makes Home newsletter. If you're curious how a finished PATH400 might change things on your own street, I'm happy to talk it through. Rachael Smith | Makes Home Real Estate