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.

ATLANTA — A quartet of Georgia’s federal lawmakers have introduced bipartisan legislation to set the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park as the first National Park and Preserve in the state.

MACON, Ga. - Georgia’s congressional delegation introduced legislation Wednesday to protect some of the ancestral lands of the Muscogee tribe as a national park and preserve. The proposed Ocmulgee ...

The decades-long campaign to turn the ancient Ocmulgee Mounds site in Middle Georgia into the state’s first national park and preserve took a major step forward Wednesday with the introduction of a ...

MACON, Ga. — Editor's note: The video above is a special about the movement to make Ocmulgee a National Park. Georgia Congress members, with the support of several other local groups, have introduced ...

Jul. 13—MOULTRIE — Sitting just outside McRae-Helena — two hours away from Colquitt County — is Little Ocmulgee State Park and Lodge, which is where I explored this week. Hitting a snag early on, I ...

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 ...

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.

MACON, Ga. — A group trying to create Georgia's first national park wants to hear ideas about the future of Macon's Ocmulgee Mounds. The Ocmulgee Park and Preserve Initiative is trying to make east ...

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 ...

On a cool Saturday morning, a group of dancers in colorful skirts and vests gathered in a grassy clearing in front of the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park’s visitors center. The music is ...

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 ...