Stephen C. Foster State Park
Fargo, GA · Southeast Georgia
The western gateway into the Okefenokee Swamp, where you trade your car for a canoe and paddle blackwater channels lined with cypress trees and Spanish moss. Roughly 12,000 American alligators live in the refuge, and the boat tours and rental kayaks put you out among them, the wading birds, and the trembling peat prairies the Okefenokee is named for. After dark the park turns into one of the only certified Dark Sky places in the South, so the Milky Way comes out over the water and the night programs run late.