The Wall St. Journal's annual "10 Best Places to Go" article for 2025 includes Ocmulgee Mounds near Macon, Georgia.
In 2025, Ocmulgee Mounds National Historic Park in Macon is likely to become Georgia’s first national park and the country’s 64th. The collection of excavated ceremonial mounds and fortresses stretch back over 12,000 years to the original Mississippian people who are thought to have arrived after the last Ice Age.
The park features a distinctive spiral mound, a restored Earth Lodge where tribal meetings once took place and a warren of woodsy trails. To honor its heritage, Macon will install bilingual street names in Muscogee and English.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/best-travel-destinations-vacation-2025-2d947023?st=joPDmP&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The area has long been a National Historical Park (https://www.nps.gov/ocmu/index.htm), but making it a National Park will bring much needed attention to the ancient inhabitants of North America. The bill to make this a National Park is moving forward.
https://indianz.com/News/2024/12/12/native-america-calling-new-momentum-to-preserve-mounds/
Although the largest earthworks at Ocmulgee post-date Book of Mormon timeframes, the site has been continuously inhabited far longer. This map shows the location of Ocmulgee (red dot) in connection with the rest of one scenario for the setting of the Book of Mormon with Cumorah/Ramah in New York.
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