No Horsing Around LbNA #60180
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Nov 12, 2011 |
| Location: | Big Haynes Creek Nature Preserve |
| City: | Conyers |
| County: | Rockdale |
| State: | Georgia |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Giggling Geese  |
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| Found by: | Not yet found! |
| Last found: | N/A |
| Last edited: | Nov 12, 2011 |
The summer of 1996 in Conyers, Georgia was an exciting and momentous time. Since opening its gates in September of 1995, the Georgia International Horse Park has served as the equestrian venue for the largest sporting event in the world: The 1996 Centennial Olympic Games. The Horse Park was the setting for all equestrian events, as well as the first ever mountain bike competition and the final two events of the modern pentathlon of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games. During the 1996 Games, over 600,000 spectators attended events at the GIHP. Spectators and athletes alike marveled at the beauty and grandeur of the Horse Park. Many called the stables at the Horse Park the finest in the world, a Ritz-Carlton for horses.
173 acres of the Georgia International Horse Park have been designated as a nature preserve known as BIG HAYNES CREEK NATURE PRESERVE. The Nature Center is devoted to the preservation and study of native plants and wildlife. It opened to the public in 2007 and features a canoe launch, observation platform and a boardwalk and viewfinder in the northern portion of the woodlands. Plan enough time to explore the half mile trail and information stations along the way.
DIRECTIONS: From Atlanta travel East (toward Augusta) to Exit # 82 (Hwy 138); turn left across the bridge and travel apprx. 3.5 miles on Hwy 138; turn right at Centennial Olympic Parkway; enjoy the scenic 2.5 mile drive down the parkway passing many cherry trees and the Cherokee Run Golf Course; just past the MAIN entrance to the GIHP, look for the BIG HAYNES CREEK NATURE PRESERVE on the left.
Park in the graveled parking lot of the Nature Preserve and look for three green posts;
After you pass through the green posts, take a left on the open trail;
Take apprx 30 steps on the open trail to a double trunk oak tree on the right;
Facing the double trunk tree, look to the left just beyond the tree;
**Walk behind the old log laying on the ground and peek underneath to find "No Horsing Around"!
Note: Horses are allowed on the trail, but no horse trailers are allowed in the gravel parking area.
173 acres of the Georgia International Horse Park have been designated as a nature preserve known as BIG HAYNES CREEK NATURE PRESERVE. The Nature Center is devoted to the preservation and study of native plants and wildlife. It opened to the public in 2007 and features a canoe launch, observation platform and a boardwalk and viewfinder in the northern portion of the woodlands. Plan enough time to explore the half mile trail and information stations along the way.
DIRECTIONS: From Atlanta travel East (toward Augusta) to Exit # 82 (Hwy 138); turn left across the bridge and travel apprx. 3.5 miles on Hwy 138; turn right at Centennial Olympic Parkway; enjoy the scenic 2.5 mile drive down the parkway passing many cherry trees and the Cherokee Run Golf Course; just past the MAIN entrance to the GIHP, look for the BIG HAYNES CREEK NATURE PRESERVE on the left.
Park in the graveled parking lot of the Nature Preserve and look for three green posts;
After you pass through the green posts, take a left on the open trail;
Take apprx 30 steps on the open trail to a double trunk oak tree on the right;
Facing the double trunk tree, look to the left just beyond the tree;
**Walk behind the old log laying on the ground and peek underneath to find "No Horsing Around"!
Note: Horses are allowed on the trail, but no horse trailers are allowed in the gravel parking area.