Johns Homestead Park Loop

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Features Birding · Fall Colors · Fishing · Historical Significance · Lake

Free, on-site parking at the Lawrenceville Hwy trailhead. There is also limited parking accessible from Stapp Drive (with access to the lakes).

City of Tucker park and nature preserve created in 2004 when DeKalb County purchased 23-acres of the Johns family property, and expanded the park in 2006 when the County purchased the adjoining Twin Brothers Lakes property. (These lakes--split into an upper and lower lake--were originally developed for pay fishing in the 1950s.)

The trail is soft surface with a bridge (boardwalk) over a dry creek and a few, improvised water crossings. There are a handful of benches along the trail and a pavilion near the lakes. Unfortunately, there is new subdivision being developed about the midpoint of the trail, with the trail passing just to the east of it. Once you pass this, the trail opens up to the beautiful lakes. Looping around the lakes, the trail meet again at the spoke. Take this section NNE until the junction before heading WNW to the Johns Homestead. The Homestead area is fenced off, but the Friends of Johns Homestead Park have been working with other groups to stabilize and preserve the existing structures and eventually restoring the buildings. Passing the homestead, the last section of the trail is (unfortunately) the sideway along Lawrenceville Hwy. Take it northeast back to the parking lot and trailhead.

Beaver, waterfowl, woodpeckers, owls, songbirds, a heron rookery, turtles, and many fish species.