64 state parks and historic sites in Georgia
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- A.H. Stephens State Park1,177 acres of rolling, forested hills west of Augusta, best known for its equestrian side: 21 miles of trail…
- Amicalola Falls State Park & LodgeThe Georgia state park at Amicalola Falls, run for the state by the North Georgia Mountains Authority…
- Black Rock Mountain State ParkGeorgia's highest state park, on the Eastern Continental Divide at 3,640 feet, with roadside overlooks giving…
- Chattahoochee Bend State Park2,910 acres wrapped inside a bend of the Chattahoochee, holding five miles of river frontage — one of…
- Cloudland Canyon State ParkThousand-foot canyons cut into the western edge of Lookout Mountain, with sandstone cliffs, wild caves and…
- Crooked River State Park500 acres of maritime forest and salt marsh on the Intracoastal Waterway, a few miles from the Cumberland…
- Don Carter State ParkThe only state park on 38,000-acre Lake Lanier, with boat ramps onto both the lake and the Chattahoochee. A…
- Elijah Clark State Park447 acres on the western shore of Clarks Hill Lake, one of the Southeast's largest, with four boat ramps and…
- F.D. Roosevelt State ParkGeorgia's largest state park at 10,874 acres along Pine Mountain Ridge, with more than 40 miles of trail…
- Florence Marina State Park173 acres at the head of 45,000-acre Lake Walter F. George, built around a natural deep-water marina with an…
- Fort McAllister State ParkThe best-preserved Confederate earthwork fortification, on the Ogeechee River south of Savannah — attacked…
- Fort Mountain State ParkAn 855-foot ancient stone wall runs along the highest point of this 4,058-acre mountain park near the Cohutta…
- Fort Yargo State ParkA 1792 log fort built by settlers still stands in 1,816 acres between Atlanta and Athens, around a 260-acre…
- General Coffee State Park1,511 acres of south Georgia wiregrass country, with a heritage farm of log cabins, a tobacco barn and a cane…
- George L. Smith State ParkA 412-acre mill pond thick with cypress and tupelo, spanned by the 1880 Parrish Mill — gristmill, sawmill…
- George T. Bagby State Park770 acres on Lake Walter F. George in southwest Georgia, with a marina, a boat ramp and a swimming beach onto…
- Georgia Veterans State Park & ResortThe Georgia state park at Lake Blackshear, run for the state by the North Georgia Mountains Authority…
- Hamburg State Park741 acres around a 225-acre lake fed by the Little Ogeechee, managed from nearby A.H. Stephens. A restored…
- Hard Labor Creek State Park5,804 acres of Piedmont woodland with a lakeside swimming beach and more than 24 miles of trail shared by…
- Hartwell Lakeside Park147 acres on 55,590-acre Lake Hartwell in northeast Georgia, with boat ramps, docks and a campground close to…
- High Falls State ParkCascades on the Towaliga River — the tallest waterfall south of Atlanta — beside a 650-acre lake known for…
- Indian Springs State ParkOne of the oldest state parks in the United States, built around a mineral spring the Creek Indians used and…
- Jack Hill State Park662 acres around a 12-acre lake in southeast Georgia, with cottages facing Brazell's Creek Golf Course and…
- James H. "Sloppy" Floyd State Park561 acres of Ridge and Valley country beside the Chattahoochee National Forest, with two stocked lakes and a…
- Kolomoki Mounds State ParkThe oldest and largest Woodland Indian site in the southeastern United States, occupied from 350 to 900 CE…
- Laura S. Walker State ParkThe first Georgia state park named for a woman, on the northern edge of the Okefenokee, where alligators and…
- Little Ocmulgee State Park & LodgeThe Georgia state park at Little Ocmulgee, run for the state by the North Georgia Mountains Authority…
- Magnolia Springs State ParkA crystal-clear spring flowing seven million gallons a day, crossed by a boardwalk where alligators and…
- Mistletoe State Park1,920 acres on Clarks Hill Lake near Augusta, rated among the country's finest bass fishing. The campground…
- Moccasin Creek State ParkJust 32 acres on Lake Burton in the Blue Ridge, and deliberately flat: easy for large RVs, bicycles and…
- Panola Mountain State ParkA 100-acre granite monadnock 15 minutes from Atlanta, pristine enough that the outcrop can only be reached on…
- Providence Canyon State ParkGeorgia's "Little Grand Canyon" — gullies up to 150 feet deep, cut by poor farming in the 1800s and now…
- Red Top Mountain State Park1,776 acres on 12,000-acre Lake Allatoona, with a sand swimming beach in a wooded cove and more than 15 miles…
- Reed Bingham State ParkA 375-acre lake lined with water lilies and tupelo, good for boating, skiing and fishing, with canoes and…
- Richard B. Russell State Park2,508 acres on a 26,650-acre lake, with cottages and campsites at the water's edge and an accessible swimming…
- Seminole State Park1,478 acres on 37,500-acre Lake Seminole, wrapped around a cove that keeps the water smooth for skiing. A…
- Skidaway Island State Park588 acres on Georgia's Intracoastal Waterway near Savannah, where trails cross maritime forest and salt marsh…
- Smithgall Woods State Park5,844 acres of Blue Ridge escarpment given to the state by Charles Smithgall, reclaimed from…
- Standing Boy Creek1,580 acres on Lake Oliver in northern Columbus, managed by the city through a nonprofit. Hiking, running…
- Stephen C. Foster State ParkA primary entrance to the Okefenokee, the largest blackwater wetland in the South, with cypress knees rising…
- Sweetwater Creek State ParkA tract of wilderness minutes from downtown Atlanta, where a streamside trail reaches the ruins of a textile…
- Tallulah Gorge State ParkTwo miles of canyon nearly 1,000 feet deep, crossed by a suspension bridge swaying 80 feet above the…
- Tugaloo State ParkA wooded peninsula on 55,590-acre Lake Hartwell, where cottages and most campsites face open water and some…
- Unicoi State Park & LodgeThe Georgia state park at Unicoi, run for the state by the North Georgia Mountains Authority. Booking, hours…
- Victoria Bryant State Park502 acres in the rolling hills of Georgia's upper Piedmont, with a stream running through it, two fishing…
- Vogel State ParkOne of Georgia's oldest parks, at the foot of Blood Mountain in the Chattahoochee National Forest and built…
- Watson Mill Bridge State ParkGeorgia's longest covered bridge still in use — 229 feet across the South Fork River, built in 1885 by W.W…
Historic sites & museums 17
- Chief Vann House State Historic SiteThe 1804 brick mansion of Cherokee leader James Vann, the most elegant house in the Cherokee Nation and the…
- Dahlonega Gold Museum State Historic SiteHoused in the 1836 Lumpkin County Courthouse, one of Georgia's oldest, at the centre of America's first major…
- Etowah Indian Mounds State Historic SiteFifty-four acres holding six earthen mounds, a plaza and a defensive ditch — the most intact Mississippian…
- Fort King George State Historic SiteThe oldest English fort remaining on the Georgia coast, and from 1721 to 1727 the southernmost outpost of the…
- Fort Morris State Historic SiteEarthworks on a bluff over the Medway River, thrown up in 1776 to defend the seaport of Sunbury. Asked to…
- Hardman Farm State Historic SiteAn Italianate mansion on the Unicoi Turnpike, once a Native American trail, south of Helen. The gazebo-topped…
- Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation State Historic SiteA rice plantation carved from the Altamaha marshes in the early 1800s by enslaved African labourers, worked…
- Jarrell Plantation State Historic SiteA cotton plantation held by one family for more than 140 years, through Sherman's march, typhoid, the boll…
- Jefferson Davis Memorial State Historic SiteThirteen acres of pine forest where Confederate President Jefferson Davis camped on 9 May 1865 and was…
- Lapham-Patterson House State Historic SiteA Victorian winter cottage built in 1884–85 for a Chicago shoe merchant, with fishscale shingles, inlaid…
- New Echota State Historic SiteThe capital the Cherokee national legislature founded in 1825, home to the first Indian-language newspaper…
- Pickett's Mill Battlefield State Historic SiteOne of the best-preserved Civil War battlefields in the country, where the Federal advance on Atlanta was…
- Reynolds Mansion on Sapelo IslandA 200-year-old estate on Sapelo Island, reached by a 30-minute ferry, in a reserve of 6,110 acres. Guided…
- Robert Toombs House State Historic SiteThe home of Robert Toombs — planter, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, senator, and briefly Confederate…
- Roosevelt's Little White House State Historic SiteThe cottage Franklin Roosevelt built at Warm Springs and where he died on 12 April 1945, left much as it was…
- Traveler's Rest State Historic SiteGeorgia's last stagecoach inn, built around 1815 on the Unicoi Turnpike over the Appalachians. Devereaux…
- Wormsloe State Historic SiteAn avenue of live oaks and Spanish moss leading to the tabby ruins of the colonial estate of Noble Jones, who…
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