To the immediate south of this, condos were built on the north-facing slope which previously had the five ski runs, named Panorama, Scooter, Kamikaze, Gravity's Revenge, and Pokey, the last of which was the bunny slope for children with its own rope tow.

These provided 15–16 acres (6.1–6.5 ha) of skiable terrain with a vertical drop of 210 feet (64 m).

Only three other aerial lifts remain in Georgia: the Sky Buckets open-air gondola at Six Flags Over Georgia, and the Summit Skyride tram to the top of Stone Mountain, both in metro Atlanta; and the chairlift across Lake Winnepesaukah, an amusement park even closer to Georgia's northern state line in Rossville, a suburb adjoining Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Due to surveying errors more than 200 years ago, the boundary is considerably further south than the 35°N specified at the time by Congress.

Because of this, the main road into Sky Valley from the highway is actually within the community of Scaly Mountain, North Carolina, which also had a ski area that closed in 2004 but offers snow tubing each winter since then.

The main entrance was originally to be a new road from Ga. 246 instead of N.C. 106, however GDOT denied this for safety reasons.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.0 square miles (7.8 km2), all land.