Leita Thompson Memorial Park w/ Optional Dinner

We are NOT parking at the main entrance.  We are parking in the OVERFLOW PARKING LOT (there are 2 entrances to the overflow parking lot, which is just EAST of the main entrance).  You can enter from the main entrance and immediately turn right, or, you can enter just east of the main entrance. Please try to be there by 3:45 PM so we can meet and greet and leave promptly at 4.

From the overflow parking lot we'll be hiking a 2.5 mile clockwise loop around the park.

The pace will be an easy to moderate 2.75MPH.  We'll take water breaks and restroom breaks as needed, as there are portable restrooms at the entrance and at the pond.

Leita Thompson Memorial Park spreads across a hundred acres of mostly forested land in the northern Atlanta suburbs.  A busy, six lane surface street runs along the park’s upper edge, and a creek meanders through a small floodplain along the opposite edge.  Ravines drop 100’ in elevation between those boarders, so the slopes along them are steeper than those found in most of the surrounding rolling terrain of the Piedmont.  That topography helps block out the hum of tires on asphalt, and even on a cold, drizzly, weekday afternoon a handful of fitness walkers and dog walkers take advantage of the park’s three miles of broad, graveled paths.

Optional Dinner at Grand Champion BBQ. (See Notes for details)

1200 Woodstock Road                                                   GPS Coordinates:  Roswell, GA 30075                                                        34.063149, -84.404576

After entering Leita Thompson Memorial Park take the 1st right to the overflow parking lot where we will meet.

Optional Dinner

Grand Champion BBQ

982 Canton St, Roswell, GA 30075

We will PARK FOR FREE at Roswell City Hall

38 Hill St, Roswell, GA 30075

and walk to Grand Champion BBQ