Federal lawmakers from Georgia reintroduced efforts to have the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park be the state’s first National Park and Preserve in U.S. Congress. Sens. Jon Ossoff and Rev.

Earth Lodge at Ocmulgee Mounds shows an example of earthworks that are over 1,000 years old. Skhamse1 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Ocmulgee Mounds, a site in central Georgia with 12,000 years of ...

House Resolution 2345 aims to establish the Ocmulgee Mounds National Park and Preserve, making it the first National Park and Preserve east of the Mississippi River and the first co-managed by a ...

MACON, Ga. — In the new year, federal lawmakers will have to climb mounds of paperwork again, to re-file a bill to make the Ocmulgee Historical Mounds into a national park. It's at least the second ...

BIBB COUNTY, Ga. — Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in Bibb County is the latest Georgia national park to expand accessibility to Georgians with the addition of an all-terrain wheelchair.

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of Georgia lawmakers is renewing a push to make Ocmulgee Mounds in Middle Georgia the state’s first national park and preserve. The refiled legislation presents the ...

The entrance to the Earth Lodge sits along the paved path at Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, in Macon, Georgia. After a failed effort in 2024, Georgia legislatures ...

MACON, Ga. — Local and state leaders are ramping up efforts to designate the Ocmulgee Mounds as the nation’s 64th national park, a move that could bring new economic, cultural and environmental ...

After receiving a spot on Time Magazine’s ‘World’s Greatest Places of 2025’ list, Macon’s Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park is in the limelight. A new bill proposes to expand the park’s ...

Visitors to Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in Macon were met with chained gates Wednesday morning. The closure comes as the federal government shut down after Congress was unable to agree on ...