Category Archives: Macon City Parks

A Park, a Hospital, and an Art Show

Today was quite a random day. We visited a city park we hadn’t been to yet and weren’t very impressed. The West Macon Park is pretty much just a bunch of baseball fields with one playground set throw in. There are no trees so the blazing hot sun was pretty intense.

This evening we met Heidi at the hospital and got to tour her work area – the office, the lounge, etc… Trey enjoyed playing with her phone at her desk. Then we headed over to Macon Arts where Michael Williams, a camera club colleague, was exhibiting 33 photos in a series entitled “Paris, Italy, and Home Again.” It was nice to meet up with several other camera clubbers and talk camera geek for a while.

We ended the evening with a stroll through downtown to the Creme-de-la-Creme ice cream shop where we each got a cone of Blue Bell ice cream. Mmm, mmm.

Georgia Children’s Home

Who would have thought the Georgia Children’s Home would be such a great place to go? It turns out, the GCH owns a huge chunk of land and has created an elaborate trail system through its woods. The trails are primarily used by mountain bikers and runners but Trey and I had a wonderful time meandering through them. At only 5 miles from our house, we’ll definitely be returning to explore more.

North Macon Park

I’m running out of nearby State Parks & Historic sites to visit so I searched the web for lesser-known trails and parks. I ran across a couple blogs by locals who enjoy hiking and listed some trails. So this morning we headed just 6 miles up the road to North Macon Park. This city park has tennis courts, ball fields, a large gym, playground, and some hiking/biking trails. The park supervisor didn’t have any trail maps so we headed off on our own.

According to the trailhead sign we walked about 2 1/2 miles. However, unless carrying Trey on so many hikes has made me really fit and speedy there is NO way we walked that far in 45 minutes (at least 20 of which were spent throwing rocks into the creek). Overall, it’s a nice trail but is rather steep in parts and could really use some signage to point  you in the right direction (at one point I wandered out of the woods into an apartment complex… whoops, wrong turn).