Forget the workout.

We're sending you to the basketball court.

Among all the gyms, recreation centers and courts around Atlanta, LA Fitness Atlantic Station has built a reputation as one of the city's places to find serious pickup basketball. Games run, competition gets real, and the crowd can change completely depending on who happens to walk through the doors. There are LA Fitness locations all over metro Atlanta. Plenty of them have basketball courts. We're telling you to go to this one.

If you're visiting Atlanta and looking for a real pickup basketball run, LA Fitness Atlantic Station is one of the first places we'd send you. And we're not saying that because somebody looked through a list of gym amenities and saw “basketball court.” We know this court. BlkTravel's founder actually managed this LA Fitness, and during that time, the basketball court was one of those places where you never really knew who was going to walk into the gym and call next. Regulars. College players. Local hoopers. Influencers. Artists. Professional athletes. Celebrities. On different days, you might look over and see people like Lamar Odom, Adam Sandler, Akon or YFN Lucci around the court.

But the names aren't really the story. The run was. Games could be going throughout the day, and the level of competition made Atlantic Station different from a gym where five people occasionally happen to find each other and start playing. People came here to hoop. That's why it belongs this high. If you're staying in Midtown, Downtown, Buckhead or West Midtown and packed your basketball shoes, don't spend your vacation driving around Atlanta looking through park fences trying to figure out whether anybody is playing. Go to Atlantic Station. Walk upstairs. Listen for the basketballs. Then figure out who's got next. And understand something before you step onto the floor: You might have to earn your way onto this court.

Welcome to Atlanta.