A K Bissell Park Loop
Reviews
Great lil trail in a great park. It's an all light gravel path. Takes you around The Friendship Bell, Secret City Commemorative Walk, and a children's Storybook Trail. Has a lot of history about the Manhattan Project. Highly recommend
Nice area very few people here. Recommend for a cloudy day as there is not much shade
I did most, but not of the AK Bissel loop. I saw the friendship bell up close for the first time amd there is a nice wwii, founders memorial for oak ridge that I want to explore a little more.
Nice. Not too much shade. Interesting history markers
It's a very nice place to walk but lacking shade. there are plenty of trees to rest under but not while you are actually walking. My son loves looking at culverts and he was not disappointed here, lol. There is a stream/creek running through with some little bridges to cross.
Centered around the Oak Ridge Civic Center, this crushed-gravel triple loop is a popular local walking route. The highlight of the trail is the International Friendship Bell and Peace Pavillon, featuring an ornate, eight-foot-tall, cast-bronze memorial designed by an Oak Ridge artist and cast by a family foundry in Kyoto, Japan. With “Hiroshima” and “Nagasaki” covering two sides of the bell, there is an appropriately somber tone to this symbol of Oak Ridge pride in the success of the Manhattan Project.