WASHINGTON, D.C. — The bipartisan Ocmulgee Mounds Park and Preserve Establishment Act has passed a key U.S. Senate Committee — a key step toward establishing Georgia’s first-ever National Park and ...

The Earth Lodge, dated to 1015 AD, was built by the Mississippian culture and later restored from archaeological evidence and is part of Ocmulgee National Monument. Ocmulgee National Monument Photos ...

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.

A bipartisan bill to establish Ocmulgee Mounds as Georgia’s first national park was reintroduced in 2025 after a failed attempt in 2024. Katharine Tucker The Georgia Department of Transportation ...

ATLANTA — 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 ...

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 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Ocmulgee Mounds, a site in central Georgia with 12,000 years of Indigenous history, may be on the verge of becoming the newest U.S. national park. This is the flagship designation ...

The Georgia Department of Transportation donated 136 acres of wetlands to the proposed Ocmulgee National Park. The land transfer advances the bipartisan effort to elevate the Ocmulgee Mounds National ...

The second major step in the process of the Ocmulgee Mounds becoming Georgia’s first and only national park will take place in just over two weeks. A federal bill to make Macon’s park a national park ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Seth T. Kannarr, University of Tennessee (THE CONVERSATION) Ocmulgee Mounds, a site in ...