The commemorative walk is a small landscaped area near the park with the international peace bell. It’s worth seeing both at once if you are doing Manhattan Project tourism. The Walk has about a dozen plaques with information about the history of the “secret city” that housed thousands of people working to build the atomic bomb. It’s celebratory about the accomplishment while glossing over the very rough living conditions and the role of the secret city in ushering in an atomic age that threatened civilization. Interesting, but just a piece of a larger story.

Not only a pleasant walk, but for the serious history buff the engraved plaques are packed with great information. We happened to be looking at the park and bell and found this by accident. We have ancestors who worked in the Secret City and found the facts extremely interesting.

Just a short walk around the path with a large amount of plaques with Secret City information about US history in WWII.

This is a short stop to visit if you have never been to Oak Ridge or want to know a little more about the history. It's a pleasant little walk on a nice day. Not really advisable in bad weather as it is entirely outside and uncovered. Worth checking out if you haven't been. The front does have the turnpike noise but it is not too bad.

Interesting walk through this open air exhibit of the people involved with the early days of Oak Ridge and the effort to develop the atomic bomb, assuring an end to WWII.