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School Bus Graveyard

Alto, Georgia, United States
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A roadside wall of retired school buses beside Highway 365 in Alto, Georgia, painted with changing murals. The Northeast Georgian described it as a long-standing local curiosity in 2021 and reported vandalism there in July 2025; Atlas Obscura contributors date the painting to 2012.
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Approximate location · 34.466° N, 83.580° W
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Beside Highway 365 in Alto, in Habersham County, a field of retired school buses had drawn the eye of passing drivers for some four decades, the Northeast Georgian reported in October 2021. That article said that the artwork on the vehicles had by then been painted over the previous ten years, in all colours and styles. In July 2025 the same paper reported that vandals had damaged the windshield and door windows of a vehicle in the yard.
Atlas Obscura contributors say a team of artists known as Crispy Printz began painting the buses in 2012 and invite other artists to repaint them each year, so the designs keep changing. They add that the buses form a wall around a yard that is both the owner's home and an auto-parts business.
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A wall of painted buses at an auto-parts business beside Highway 365 in Alto. Atlas Obscura contributors say visitors may check in at the garage before viewing the buses, and ask visitors to respect signage and not climb on or into the buses.
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Beside Highway 365 in Alto, Georgia. Atlas Obscura contributors advise parking on the shoulder of Crane Mill Road and say visitors may check in at the garage before viewing the buses. They ask visitors to respect signage and not climb on or into the buses, because of past vandalism.
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