Scott Circle of Life Labyrinth

In Decatur, the Scott Circle of Life labyrinth is a community-built permanent path in a neighborhood setting, walked by Decatur's famously engaged civic community. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as mostly classical, with the builders' note that the earth sometimes sends the path in a different direction; installed June 2025.

Every labyrinth is a walking practice, not a puzzle: a single path winds to a center and back out, and the walk is done slowly, as prayer or meditation. The pattern descends from the medieval pavement labyrinth at Chartres, and the modern urban revival began in the 1990s when Lauren Artress brought replicas of that path to American congregations and public grounds through Veriditas and the Labyrinth Society, whose World-Wide Labyrinth Locator now catalogs thousands. There is no branching and no trick to the path; walkers of every religion and none use it.

Visiting

labyrinthlocator.org carries the site's own information and schedule.