Leake Mounds Interpretive Trail

Great place cool trail lot a history as you walk on the trail. I can be a little soggy at times but very well worth the walk to learn some local history.

Very informative placards along the trail telling you the history of the mounds!

Leake Mounds is another even earlier native American site built by the Swift Creek Culture and dating to what is known as the Middle Woodland period. This goes back to the prehistoric era between 300 BC and 600 AD.

The interpretative trail of 18 markers covers around three kilometres. It details the archaeological finds discovered during digs, and what they mean for our understanding of this period of history.

The trail takes in the remains of three mounds, as well as a large semi-circular ditch or moat, and a midden – a prehistoric landfill site.

An informative walk through the history of the Native population that called this particular part of the south home. Ruffly every two hundred yards there is another sign with fun facts and pictures. I would suggest it for small groups of highschool or older people. They have large feilds but no picnic area, vending machines, restrooms, or playground yet.
A nice place to take a quiet walk to either next to the river or to the train tracks. Very interesting signs and what is there is well maintained right off the main road and it's open from sun up to sun down.

A very short time spent here on other business. Not fair to critique at this time.

Needs some maintenance.

It's a good trail well marked and maintained, best part was the pokestops.

a little rough but some will enjoy it

It is all gravel.

1.5 mile loop, not very well maintained. Parking is convenient.

This is not a worthwhile destination. I was desperate for a family hike so I took the family here. It is about a 1.5 walk on a crushed gravel path with no shade and no sights. The first bit is through grassland, then under the highway that will be very muddy if it has rained in the last 48 hours to a circle path in a field. Then back the way you came. There are some infographic panels with some history on the area's early residents, but it is nothing worth making the trip for. The mounds they refer to have long been demolished to build roadbeds. Just trust me, and I love parks/hikes, it is a waste of time. Go hike Cooper's furnace, Pine Mountain, or Red Top Mountain instead. Or bike/hike the nearby and much better Etowah Riverwalk.

Very disappointing. If hoping for some history, there are 18 checkpoint interpretive signs offering scannable QR codes dotting an otherwise very unscenic, smelly, and slightly formidable trail that winds around semi trucks and industrialization offices. The websites about Leake Mounds, while mentioning that excavation has occurred, don't directly mention that there are, in fact, zero mounds or artifacts. We parked at the Riverwalk Connector, which is technically the start of the trail, but would never recommend because it includes a tense .5 mi walk along the highway, which you then have to repeat to leave. Though this one is free, that's its only redeeming factor. Etowah Mounds is worth it instead!

There is nothing here. The signs don't talk much about what they used to be more about the culture that existed but nothing really to look at. The first sign is also, not with the start of the trail, very confusing.