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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Visitor Overlook Trail

2006 September

Sitting at the patio next to the new cafeteria, looking over the pond, one can see the old ORNL visitor overlook, up the hill across the street (out of view in the photo above). Even from that distance, one can see it has changed significantly since my last visit.

Little remains of the old nature trail, but a new cut through the trees near the parking lot provides an adequate walking route up the hill.

Approaching the overlook, the new (~2003-2005) Visitor Center building complex comes into view.  The building and displays at the overlook are gone, and little remains, other than the foundation, which plants are beginning to take over, and remnants of old display holders.

Near the overlook, the old trail to the parking lot is blocked by a fallen tree.

Quote of the moment

Here in the United States we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy forests, and exterminate fishes, birds, and mammals—not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at last it looks as if our people were awakening. Many leading men, Americans and Canadians, are doing all they can for the Conservation movement.

~ THEODORE ROOSEVELT, “Our Vanishing Wildlife,” Literary Essays (vol. 12 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), chapter 46, p. 420 (1926). Originally appeared in The Outlook, January 25, 1913. ~

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