Spalding Drive, Residential road in Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States.

Spalding Drive is a residential road running through northern Atlanta neighborhoods, linking several communities together. It passes schools, post offices, and business parks while traversing hilly terrain with multiple curves.

The route originally followed a Native American trail before becoming a getaway path for Atlanta residents seeking summer homes in northern areas. Over time, different road sections merged into a single unified route.

The road takes its name from the Spalding family, who owned a large amount of land in Sandy Springs. Its older sections carried other names tied to local use: west of Roberts Drive it was Old Roswell Road until 1929, and east of Roberts Drive it was Jett Ferry Road, named for the Jett Ferry crossing of the Chattahoochee it led to.

Expect changing road conditions and elevation changes that require careful driving attention. The route has several access points to public facilities and business areas that get busy during peak hours.

Different sections of the road came together from separate earlier routes that had different names. This consolidation created one continuous corridor that developed through stages over time.