Morning Hike at Leita Thompson Memorial Park

Join me for a morning hike around Leita Thompson Memorial Park. We will loop around the park twice at a moderate pace to get in some extra steps. If lucky, the sun may peek outside the clouds to make the hike more enjoyable.  

The trails at Leita Thompson are wide and relatively free of rocks and roots and the elevation changes are moderate and relatively easy to handle. We'll be moving at a moderate pace, getting in about 5 miles in 2 hours and 15 minutes.

There are no bathrooms, but there are three sets of porta-potties throughout the park.

I will start on time, so please arrive a few minutes early to check in and meet your fellow members.  

Be ready to turn into the park driveway as soon as you pass through the traffic light on Woodstock Road.  We'll meet in the large lot of the Art Center building. If you park in the pavilion lot, you'll have to walk up the gravel road to meet the group.  It's best to drive up the road to park in the large overflow lot.

Parking is free.

N 34.06258,  W -84.40270

1355 Woodstock Rd,  Roswell, GA 30075

Woodstock Rd just past intersection of Woodstock and Mountain View roads

There are three parking lots in the area:  one for the dog park, the second for the arts center  and overflow lot, and the third for the pavillion lot.  We will be parking in the second lot, to the left of the arts center.

From Atlanta take GA-400 N to exit 7B W/Holcomb Bridge Rd in Roswell. Continue west on Holcomb Bridge Rd for 5.7 miles. On your right you will pass Chick-fil-a and Mountain Park Rd. Take the next right immediately after the light. This is the entrance for the dog park and Art Center West.  Make an immediate left for the gravel overflow parking lot 

If you pass this entrance, you will come to the main Leita Thompson entrance at the pavilion.  You can turn in here and then take an immediate right up the gravel path to the overflow lot.  Drive up the gravel road through the woods and park at the top of the hill.