Considered to be Buckhead’s best kept secret, Pine Hills is a strong active community in which its Pine Hills Neighborhood Association (PHNA) protects its interests and maintains the integrity of its residential neighborhood. Incorporated as a non-profit membership corporation in 1960, the PHNA has kept Pine Hills a single-family oasis sitting in between Fulton and DeKalb Counties. Condo and apartment complexes edge the development.

Pine Hills draws its deep history to the land from the early 1800s when it began developing from a quiet farming community to a wealthier area for Atlantans searching to build estates on larger pieces of property. Today, a range of young and old call Pine Hills their home. Families are drawn to its safety and its preeminent Sarah Smith Elementary School. The community’s Birdhaven Garden Club is an active group that sponsors an annual Halloween Carnival and provides holiday baskets for the elderly.

Pine Hills residents can join the private Roxboro Valley Association Pool and Tennis Club. For over fifty years, families have spent summers swimming in the club’s 25-meter heated pool, splashing in the baby pool, relaxing at its picnic pavilion, or competing at its lit tennis courts. The quiet enclave is also home to Shady Valley Park that offer three public tennis courts, a full basketball court, shaded playground, and lots of green space for games and picnics.