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Georgia State Parks

Most people know Georgia's state parks by the mountain ones. This list keeps going south almost to the Florida line, and a couple of the best are down there.

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Georgia Attractions

Nearly half of these Georgia attractions are in two cities, 14 in Atlanta and eight in Savannah. Some of the rest take ten minutes, like the 56-foot Big Chicken on Cobb Parkway or the oak in Athens that legally owns itself.

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North Georgia Mountains

Atlanta's weekend mountains. Come in early spring, when the falls run strongest.

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Offbeat North Georgia

North Georgia's odd side, for when the waterfalls start to run together.

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Lakes & rivers

Tallulah Gorge State Park

Tallulah Falls, GA · Northeast Georgia$

A hike on the floor of Tallulah Gorge, at Tallulah Falls in Rabun County, takes one of 100 free permits handed out each day. You pick one up at the Interpretive Center on the day…

Lakes & rivers

Amicalola Falls State Park

Dawsonville, GA · North Georgia Mountains$

Amicalola Falls, the third-highest cascading waterfall east of the Mississippi, drops 729 feet near Dawsonville, and its Cherokee name means tumbling waters. The staircase beside…

Beaches

Cumberland Island National Seashore

St. Marys, GA · Golden Isles$$$

Nothing is for sale on Cumberland Island, 45 minutes by ferry from St. Marys, so bring all your food and water and carry your trash back off. The ferry often sells out, and from…

Mountains

Brasstown Bald

Hiawassee, GA · North Georgia Mountains$

On a lucky day you can pick out the Atlanta skyline from the observation deck on Brasstown Bald, Georgia's highest point, near Hiawassee. The shuttle from the parking lot doesn't…

Canyons & deserts

Cloudland Canyon State Park

Rising Fawn, GA · Northwest Georgia$

Six hundred metal steps take the strenuous Waterfalls Trail into Cloudland Canyon, a 1,000-foot gorge on the western flank of Lookout Mountain where Daniel Creek tumbles over two…

Forests

Cohutta Wilderness

Chatsworth, GA · North Georgia MountainsFree

The Jacks River Trail goes through the water at least 40 times in 15.7 miles of the Cohutta Wilderness, on the Georgia-Tennessee line. Most of it follows an old logging railroad…

Lakes & rivers

Anna Ruby Falls

Helen, GA · North Georgia Mountains$

Two creeks fall side by side at Anna Ruby Falls near Helen, Curtis Creek about 153 feet and York Creek about 50, and meet at the bottom as Smith Creek. The paved path follows it…

Mountains

Black Rock Mountain State Park

Mountain City, GA · North Georgia Mountains$

The roadside overlooks at Black Rock Mountain State Park in Mountain City look out 80 miles, so you get the view without a hike. It's usually one of the first Georgia state parks…

Lakes & rivers

Carters Lake

Oakman, GA · North Georgia Mountains

Carters Lake, an Army Corps reservoir near Chatsworth about 70 miles north of Atlanta, has 62 miles of undeveloped shoreline and one business, the marina. Steep banks limit…

Mountains

Fort Mountain State Park

Chatsworth, GA · Northwest Georgia$

A rock wall 855 feet long runs across the top of Fort Mountain, 2,850 feet up at the southwestern end of the Cohutta Mountains near Chatsworth. Early Native Americans are thought…

Lakes & rivers

Minnehaha Falls

Lakemont, GA · North Georgia Mountains

In a steep-sided cove near Lake Rabun, Minnehaha Falls spills about 100 feet over stepped rock. The trail follows Fall Branch for 0.4 mile and is at its prettiest in mid to late…

Mountains

Springer Mountain

Ellijay, GA · North Georgia MountainsFree

Springer Mountain is the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail, the spot where thousands of thru-hikers begin a 2,190-mile walk to Maine. Find the bronze AT plaque and the…

Mountains

Vogel State Park

Blairsville, GA · North Georgia Mountains$

Vogel State Park rents 34 cottages and has 90 campsites at the base of Blood Mountain near Blairsville, and the Civilian Conservation Corps built many of its facilities. Its CCC…

Lakes & rivers

Lake Blue Ridge

Blue Ridge, GA · North Georgia MountainsFree

Morganton Point is where to swim and camp on Lake Blue Ridge, the Tennessee Valley Authority reservoir at Blue Ridge, Georgia. Its beach has outdoor showers, and its campground…

Lakes & rivers

Raven Cliff Falls

Helen, GA · North Georgia Mountains$

Raven Cliff Falls comes through a split in a rock face outside Helen. Behind the split the water drops about 60 feet, then 20 into a deep pool, then 20 more to Dodd Creek. The…

Lakes & rivers

Dukes Creek Falls

Helen, GA · North Georgia Mountains$

A misty multi-tier waterfall dropping about 150 feet into a shaded gorge, Dukes Creek Falls is among the most rewarding short hikes near Helen. A well-graded 1.25-mile trail…

Lakes & rivers

Panther Creek Falls

Turnerville, GA · North Georgia Mountains$

It's 3.5 miles each way to Panther Creek Falls near Turnerville, and the Forest Service opens the trail only to intermediate and advanced hikers. Stretches of the tread have…

Forests

Sosebee Cove

Blairsville, GA · North Georgia MountainsFree

Very large yellow poplars and yellow buckeyes stand in Sosebee Cove, 175 acres of north-facing forest on GA 180 south of Blairsville. Plenty of visitors take it for old growth…

Attractions

Expedition: Bigfoot, The Sasquatch Museum

Cherry Log, GA · North Georgia Mountains$

Tucked along Highway 515 between Blue Ridge and Ellijay, this 4,000-square-foot shrine to Sasquatch claims the largest permanent collection of Bigfoot artifacts anywhere, and it…

Attractions

Babyland General Hospital

Cleveland, GA · North Georgia MountainsFree

This columned white mansion is the official "birthplace" of the Cabbage Patch Kids, the soft-sculpture dolls Xavier Roberts dreamed up in these North Georgia hills. Time your…

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Old Car City USA

White, GA · Northwest Georgia

More than 4,400 American cars from the 1970s and older sit rusting in the forest at Old Car City, 34 acres in White, Georgia, near Exit 293 on I-75. It opens at 9am Tuesday…

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Consolidated Gold Mine

Dahlonega, GA · North Georgia Mountains$$

The underground tour at the Consolidated Gold Mine, about a mile from downtown Dahlonega, goes roughly 200 feet down. The mine ran from 1898 to 1906, then sat abandoned for 75…

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Mercier Orchards

Blue Ridge, GA · North Georgia Mountains

The apple fried pie at Mercier Orchards in Blue Ridge is made from Adele Mercier's family recipe. She and Bill Mercier bought a 27-acre orchard here in 1943, and she sold their…

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Foxfire Museum & Appalachian Heritage Center

Mountain City, GA · North Georgia Mountains

In 1974, the high school students behind the bestseller The Foxfire Book used its royalties to buy land on Black Rock Mountain in Mountain City, Georgia. More than 20 historic…

Canyons & deserts

Providence Canyon State Park

Lumpkin, GA · Southwest Georgia$

Sixteen canyons cut into soft Coastal Plain soil here, their walls banded pink, orange, lavender and white from layers of clay and iron, all of it carved in barely 150 years by…

Lakes & rivers

Sweetwater Creek State Park

Lithia Springs, GA · Metro Atlanta$

Less than a half-mile down the Red Trail, the five-story brick shell of the New Manchester textile mill rises straight out of the woods, its empty window rows looking onto the…

Lakes & rivers

Okefenokee State Park

Fargo, GA · Southeast Georgia

Okefenokee State Park, called Stephen C. Foster State Park until 2026, is the western entrance to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, near Fargo. Billy's Island is about 2…

Forests

Unicoi State Park

Helen, GA · North Georgia Mountains$

The steep 4.8-mile Smith Creek Trail runs from Unicoi State Park, about two miles outside Alpine Helen, up to Anna Ruby Falls. The taller of the two falls drops more than 150…

Springs

Indian Springs State Park

Flovilla, GA · Middle Georgia$

At Indian Springs State Park in Flovilla, near I-75, you can taste water from a natural artesian spring inside a stone Spring House. The water smells of sulphur from the minerals…

Lakes & rivers

High Falls State Park

Jackson, GA · Middle Georgia$

The Towaliga River fans out across a wide shelf of granite here and drops about 100 feet in a series of rushing cascades, the largest waterfall in middle Georgia and loudest…

Forests

F.D. Roosevelt State Park

Pine Mountain, GA · Columbus$

Georgia's largest state park sprawls across the Pine Mountain ridge, where FDR drove up from Warm Springs to picnic at Dowdell's Knob and look out over the valley he loved. The…

Forests

Red Top Mountain State Park

Cartersville, GA · Northwest Georgia$

The Iron Hill loop at Red Top Mountain State Park, near Acworth, follows Lake Allatoona for 3.9 miles of gravel through a former 1800s iron mining community. The paved Lakeside…

Lakes & rivers

Crooked River State Park

St. Marys, GA · Golden Isles$

Wood storks and herons roost in dead pines where the River Trail drops down a bluff into the marsh at Crooked River State Park in St. Marys. The Sempervirens Trail passes five…

Mountains

Panola Mountain State Park

Stockbridge, GA · Metro Atlanta$

Panola Mountain, in Stockbridge, is the granite outcrop Stone Mountain might have been if it had stayed wild. Its 100 acres of rock are open only on guided hikes, which you book…

Forests

Skidaway Island State Park

Savannah, GA · Savannah$

Skidaway Island State Park sits on Skidaway Narrows, part of the Intracoastal Waterway, on the island southeast of Savannah. Sandpiper, the trail most people walk, loops a level…

Lakes & rivers

Fort McAllister State Park

Richmond Hill, GA · Savannah

Fort McAllister, an earthwork on the Ogeechee River in Richmond Hill, south of Savannah, held off seven attacks by Union ironclads. Sherman's infantry took it in about 15 minutes…

Beaches

Driftwood Beach

Jekyll Island, GA · Georgia Coast / Golden Isles$

Old driftwood lines the waterfront at the north end of Georgia's Jekyll Island. Park off Beachview Drive by the beach access, or walk over from Clam Creek Picnic Area next door…

Attractions

Fox Theatre

Atlanta, GA · Metro Atlanta

This 1929 movie palace on Peachtree Street began as a Shrine temple, which is why its auditorium unfolds like an open-air Arabian courtyard beneath a ceiling of 96 crystal stars…

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National Center for Civil and Human Rights

Atlanta, GA · Metro Atlanta$$

Steps from the Georgia Aquarium in downtown Atlanta, the Center sits you down at a recreated lunch counter for two minutes of the 1960 student sit-ins. The King gallery has…

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World of Coca-Cola

Atlanta, GA · Metro Atlanta$$

Atlanta's downtown shrine to the world's most famous soft drink walks you from the 1880s soda fountain through the glass-walled vault said to hold the secret formula. The finale…

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Georgia Aquarium

Atlanta, GA · Metro Atlanta$$$

Behind the glass of the Ocean Voyager gallery, whale sharks and manta rays glide through 6.3 million gallons of saltwater, the largest single tank in the country. The Georgia…

Attractions

Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park

Atlanta, GA · Metro AtlantaFree

This stretch of Auburn Avenue holds the places that shaped Dr. King's life and the movement he led: the Queen Anne house where he was born, the Ebenezer Baptist Church sanctuary…

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Atlanta History Center

Atlanta, GA · Metro Atlanta$$

At the Atlanta History Center in Buckhead, a tunnel under the diorama brings you up inside the Cyclorama, a 49-foot-tall painting of the Battle of Atlanta. Seventeen German…

Attractions

College Football Hall of Fame

Atlanta, GA · Metro Atlanta$$

A three-story wall of 768 helmets greets you at the door, one for every program in the college game, and the one from your school lights up when you register at the entrance. The…

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Center for Puppetry Arts

Atlanta, GA · Metro Atlanta$$

Jim Henson and Kermit the Frog cut the ribbon here in 1978, and the building has been the country's largest home for puppetry ever since. The Worlds of Puppetry Museum holds the…

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Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum

Atlanta, GA · Metro Atlanta$

The Oval Office at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta is a life-size replica, with a reproduction of the Resolute desk. The Camp David Meetings get a…

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The Varsity

Atlanta, GA · Metro Atlanta

"What'll ya have? What'll ya have?" is how the counter crew greets you at The Varsity, across the I-75/85 Connector from Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Frank Gordy opened it in 1928 as…

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Georgia State Capitol

Atlanta, GA · Metro AtlantaFree

The first gold on the Georgia State Capitol's dome was donated by Dahlonega and Lumpkin County, and in 1958 mule-drawn wagons hauled 43 ounces of it to Atlanta. The building is…

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Margaret Mitchell House

Atlanta, GA · Metro Atlanta

Margaret Mitchell wrote most of Gone with the Wind in a two-room ground-floor apartment at 10th and Peachtree in Midtown Atlanta, and called it "the Dump." She started with the…

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The Big Chicken

Marietta, GA · Metro Atlanta

A 56-foot steel rooster towers over Cobb Parkway with a yellow beak that opens and shuts and eyes that roll, a roadside KFC sign that has marked the spot since 1963. Locals give…

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High Museum of Art

Atlanta, GA · Metro Atlanta$$

Richard Meier's 1983 building and three more that Renzo Piano added in 2005 house the High Museum of Art on Peachtree Street in Atlanta. Piano's buildings more than doubled the…

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The Wren's Nest

Atlanta, GA · Metro Atlanta$

In this Queen Anne Victorian in Atlanta's West End, journalist Joel Chandler Harris wrote the Uncle Remus tales that carried Br'er Rabbit and the briar patch into American…

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Stone Mountain Carving

Stone Mountain, GA · Metro Atlanta$

Cut 42 feet deep into the north face of a granite dome, this is the largest high-relief carving in the world, spanning 190 feet of stone with Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and…

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Mercer-Williams House Museum

Savannah, GA · Savannah$

The red-brick Italianate mansion on Monterey Square was designed in 1860 by architect John S. Norris for General Hugh Mercer, great-grandfather of songwriter Johnny Mercer, and…

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Bonaventure Cemetery

Savannah, GA · Savannah

Live oaks draped in Spanish moss arch over more than a hundred acres on a bluff above the Wilmington River, shading a Victorian gallery of marble angels and weathered family…

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Savannah Historic District

Savannah, GA · Savannah

In 1733 James Oglethorpe laid out Savannah's first six wards around public squares, with lots for public buildings on two sides and houses on the other two. The plan kept growing…

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SCAD Museum of Art

Savannah, GA · Savannah

The SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah holds more than 4,500 works, including the Walter O. Evans Collection of African American art. Its costume collection has couture by Yves Saint…

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Fort Pulaski National Monument

Savannah, GA · Savannah$

In April 1862, Union rifled cannon opened two 30-foot holes in the southeast face of Fort Pulaski, on Cockspur Island 15 miles east of Savannah. Its brick walls are 7.5 feet…

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Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist

Savannah, GA · SavannahFree

The twin 207-foot spires of this 1876 French Gothic cathedral are the landmark you steer by all over downtown Savannah, rising white above Lafayette Square. Step inside and the…

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First African Baptist Church

Savannah, GA · Savannah$

Tracing its congregation to 1773, this brick sanctuary on Franklin Square was raised in 1859 by enslaved and free Black members who made the bricks by hand and laid them after…

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Tybee Island Light Station

Tybee Island, GA · Savannah$

Georgia's oldest and tallest lighthouse has guided ships toward the Savannah River since the colony's earliest days, and the black-white-black tower you climb today rises 145…

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Pin Point Heritage Museum

Savannah, GA · Savannah$

Set inside the restored A.S. Varn and Son oyster and crab factory on the marsh at Moon River, this museum tells the story of Pin Point, a Gullah Geechee community that freed…

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Little White House

Warm Springs, GA · Columbus$

Franklin Roosevelt built this modest pine cottage in 1932 and returned to it again and again to ease his polio in the nearby warm mineral springs, and it is where he died of a…

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National Infantry Museum

Columbus, GA · ColumbusFree

Just outside the gates of Fort Moore, 190,000 square feet trace the American foot soldier from the Revolution to today, with a World War II Company Street of seven restored…

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Hay House

Macon, GA · Middle Georgia$$

Macon's Italian Renaissance Revival mansion, built between 1855 and 1859 and nicknamed the Palace of the South, climbs four stories to a three-story cupola over 24 rooms and…

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Jekyll Island Club

Jekyll Island, GA · Golden Isles$

From 1886 the Morgans, Rockefellers, Pulitzers and Vanderbilts wintered behind this turreted clubhouse, and in 1910 a few of them slipped onto the island in secret to draft the…

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Lunchbox Museum

Columbus, GA · Columbus$

Allen Woodall bought his first lunch boxes, a Green Hornet and a Dick Tracy, at an Atlanta fairgrounds in 1985, and the obsession that followed now fills these walls with more…

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Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park

Macon, GA · Middle GeorgiaFree

Stairs are the only way up the 55-foot Great Temple Mound at Ocmulgee Mounds in Macon, since the slopes are off limits. It's the largest of seven mounds built by Mississippian…

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Tellus Science Museum

Cartersville, GA · Northwest Georgia$$

A Smithsonian-affiliate science museum off I-75 where a hall of full-size dinosaur skeletons gives way to a mineral gallery glittering with cut gems and raw crystals. Kids pan…

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Allman Brothers Band Museum at the Big House

Macon, GA · Middle Georgia$$

Dickey Betts wrote "Blue Sky" looking out the living room window of this 1900 Tudor on Vineville Avenue in Macon, and "Ramblin' Man" was written in its kitchen. Duane and Gregg…

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Booth Western Art Museum

Cartersville, GA · Northwest Georgia$$

One gallery at this Western art museum in Cartersville, Georgia, holds a portrait and a hand-signed letter from every U.S. president, starting with Washington. Frederic Remington…

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Tubman Museum

Macon, GA · Middle Georgia$

Wilfred Stroud's mural From Africa to America, nine panels and 55 feet long, is where to start at the Tubman Museum on Cherry Street in downtown Macon. The panels, seven made in…

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Rock City Gardens

Lookout Mountain, GA · Northwest Georgia$$

A walking trail threads between towering ancient sandstone formations atop Lookout Mountain, past the 100-foot Mushroom Rock, across the swaying Swing-A-Long Bridge, and out to…

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Pasaquan

Buena Vista, GA · Southwest Georgia$

Eddie Owens Martin, who called himself St. EOM, spent his last three decades building Pasaquan on his late mother's farm 8 miles outside Buena Vista. He took the name after a…

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Lapham-Patterson House

Thomasville, GA · Southwest Georgia$

Built in 1885 as a Chicago shoe magnate's winter cottage, this Queen Anne landmark is a National Historic Landmark loaded with deliberate oddities: a deck of fish-scale shingles…

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Andersonville National Historic Site

Andersonville, GA · Southwest GeorgiaFree

On the ground where Camp Sumter held more than 45,000 Union prisoners in its final fourteen months, a reconstructed stretch of stockade wall and the rows of white headstones at…

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The Tree That Owns Itself

Athens, GA · Northeast Georgia

A white oak on a quiet residential corner that, by a deed first reported in 1890, legally owns itself and the ground within eight feet of its trunk, the gift of Colonel William…