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    Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park - Lakeside Pavilion

    Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park

    4.0(5 reviews)
    31.8 mi

    Kolomoki Mounds State Park near Blakely, Georgia. We recently spent 3 nights there in perfect…read morecamping weather of cool clear mid-March days and nights. The night sky was magnificent. This park is in the southwest corner of Georgia, about 90 miles northwest of Tallahassee, Florida. A very nice and historic state park with ancient Native American mound structures. This is the oldest and largest Woodland Indian site in the southeastern United States, occupied by Native Americans from 350 to 900 C.E. The single campground is on one of two lakes inside the park. It has 25 campsites on a one way loop and a single smallish bath house that is centrally located. Laundry machines are available. There is a boat launch area near the campground entrance. Small boats with 10 hp or less motors are allowed but we only saw folks using their own kayaks or the rental kayaks, canoes or pontoon paddle boats on the small lake. The campstore/office where you check in is near the western entrance to the park. The store was small but nice and the staff was helpful and friendly. Unfortunately, the museum that is actually built incorporating part of a small mound and inside the camp office building was closed, apparently due to a dispute over some of the artifacts. The ranger said thst she expects it to stay closed for a while still. The road inside the campground is paved but the sites are gravel with the exception of the handicapped one we saw. Our site 7 was one of the 9 sites on Lake Kolomoki. This site was a back-in and a bit small in length, but it was pretty level and the western exposure view across the lake was great. Definitely try to get one if these lakefront sites! The pull through sites were larger but not lakefront. As with most Georgia state parks the sites were equipped with a large picnic table, a fire pit, a grill and and pole to hang lights or whatever (please don't hang out trash bags y'all, the dumpster is only 50 yards away). No sewer hookups but the dump station is conveniently located near the campground entrance as is the trash dumpster. We saw three different trails ranging from 1.25 to 2.5 miles long. From what we saw these trails are not bike friendly, but the paved roads were great for biking all around inside the park. There is also the wide open grassy plaza and temple mound area to walk around. The public group area is on Lake Yohala, the second lake down the main road less than a mile east of the campground. That area has the swimming beach, several picnic shelters, bathrooms, a playground, a putt putt golf course and some frisbee golf targets. The main historical feature of this park is the Temple Mound, also marked as Mound A. In 1949 the CCC built a stairway that provides access to the top of Mound A for great views of the area. Mound A is the largest Woodland-period platform mound in Eastern North America, standing 57-feet high, it dominates two smaller burial mounds and several ceremonial mounds. This park is pretty remotely located in a farming area but we did venture out for dinner one night at White Oak Pastures, a place with a country store, farm-to-table restaurant, a farm animal zoo and even pony rides. The reataurant had a menu limited to various burgers and salads. We all really liked the various speciality burgers we had as well as the hand cut fries. At our campsite we saw lots of birds, including purple martins, cardinals, woodpeckers and egrets. We also saw an alligator swimming near the middle if the campground lake. Loud bullfrogs were heard at night. We had a good time camping and exploring this nice park with our camping friends who met us there for the stay.

    Great family place interesting visit. Will return with more family in tow. This is our first Mound…read morepark we visited.

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    Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park - Lakefront site 7.

    Lakefront site 7.

    Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park - Riding our bikes on main road past 2 mounds

    Riding our bikes on main road past 2 mounds

    Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park - View across lake to campground.

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    View across lake to campground.

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