Menlo is a small city in Chattooga County, Georgia, United States.

[6] The city's founder, Captain Andrew Lawrence, named it after Menlo Park, New Jersey, in honor of inventor Thomas Edison.

[7][8] Menlo is located at the base of the Cumberland Plateau in western Chattooga County.

Georgia State Route 48 runs through the center of town, leading east 8 miles (13 km) to Summerville, the Chattooga County seat, and northwest 3 miles (5 km) to Cloudland atop Lookout Mountain.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Menlo has a total area of 0.77 square miles (2.0 km2), all of it land.