Mount Wilkinson / Vinings Mountain (Vinings)

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Mount Wilkinson, commonly called Vinings Mountain, is a low mountain immediately north-northwest of and directly overlooking downtown Vinings, in southeast Cobb County, Georgia, USA.

Mount Wilkinson was named in honor of Mell B. Wilkinson, the first President of the Boy Scouts' Atlanta Council. It is located at what once was the Bert Adams Scout Camp. Formerly known as Signal Mountain, it is the highest point between Kennesaw Mountain and Stone Mountain.

It is said that in 1864, U.S. Army General William T. Sherman got his first look at the church spires of Atlanta from the summit of Signal Mountain, a.k.a. Mount Wilkinson.
The mountain, left only partly forested, is now topped with high-rise office towers, part of the Cumberland/Galleria edge city of metro Atlanta. Among these buildings lies a small, private cemetery in which Hardy Pace (1785–1864), a founder of Vinings and operator of Pace's Ferry, is buried. Mount Wilkinson Parkway is one of the roads in the area.