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Trails
Arboretum Trail
Length: .25 mile
Time: 1/2 hour
Difficulty: Easy
Brochure: Available at visitor center
Description: This is the shortest and
easiest of the park's trails and accessible to almost everyone. There
are signs identifying many of the trees found along the trail with
numerous benches allowing for a longer visit.
Austell Trail
Length: 1.12 miles
Time: 1 hour
Difficulty: Moderate
Brochure: Available at visitor center
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Description: This trail meanders through
hogback ridges and through a wooded stream valley to Lake Austell, and
then on to the picnic area. This trail covers a variety of terrain,
moderately steep in places, and allows a good view of the diversity of
the park environment.
Austell Trail
Length: 2.03
Time: 2 hours
Difficulty: Moderate
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Additional Trail Information: This trail
connects the visitor center with the Lake Austell boat dock, and Austell
swimming and picnic areas. You can begin the trail at any of these
locations. Visitor Center to Lake Austell boat dock - .91 mile Visitor
Center to Lake Austell picnic area - 1.12 miles
Description: From the visitor center,
the trail meanders along steep, hogback ridges and through a wooded
stream valley to Lake Austell, then continues to the picnic area. Allow
and hour or more for a leisurely hike through a variety of terrain. The
trail is moderately steep in places and allows a good view of the
Crowley's Ridge landscape and rich forest diversity of the park.
Big Ben Nature Trail
Length: 1/2 mile
Time: 3/4 hour
Difficulty: Easy
Brochure: Available at visitor center
Description: A self-guided trail booklet
that will guide you through this unique area of Crowley's Ridge can be
obtained at the visitor center. The trail begins near the visitor center
and loops back to its beginning.
Lake Dunn Trail
Length: 2.75 miles
Time: 2 hours
Difficulty: Easy
Brochure: Available at visitor center
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Description: The trail starts at Lake
Dunn boat dock. It travels along wooded ridge tops and winds around to
the swinging bridge where the Old Military Road once passed.
Military Road Trail
Length: 2.25 miles
Time: 2 hours
Difficulty: Moderate
Brochure: Available at visitor center
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Description: This beautiful trail
preserves the most dramatic remaining portion of the Trail of Tears.
Called the Memphis to Little Rock Road, it was completed in 1829 and
provided the first improved route between Memphis and Little Rock, and
became a major route of Indian Removal for Creek, Chickasaw and 600
Cherokee.
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