Worth a DetourCumberland Island
Georgia
Georgia's largest barrier island: 17 miles of empty beach, wild horses and the ruins of a Carnegie mansion, reached only by ferry.
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Georgia
15 places and 49 sights on our lists.
Places in Georgia
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Worth a DetourJekyll Island and the Golden Isles
Georgia
Marshy Georgia islands with Driftwood Beach, the old millionaires' club on Jekyll and St. Simons' lighthouse and oaks.
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Worth a DetourOkefenokee Swamp
Georgia
A vast blackwater wilderness of cypress, lilies and alligators, named Georgia's first World Heritage Site in 2026.
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Worth a DetourThe Masters at Augusta
Georgia
Early April
Golf's most revered tournament, held every April on the azaleas and pines of Augusta National, with famously cheap pimento cheese sandwiches.
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If You're NearbyAmicalola Falls
Georgia
Georgia's tallest waterfall, tumbling 729 feet down a mountainside, and the traditional start of the Appalachian Trail.
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If You're NearbyAndersonville National Historic Site
Georgia
The Civil War's most notorious prison camp, now home to the National Prisoner of War Museum.
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If You're NearbyAthens
Georgia
America's great college music town, which gave the world R.E.M. and the B-52s, with a lovely old university.
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If You're NearbyAtlanta
Georgia
Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthplace and church, the Georgia Aquarium and World of Coca-Cola.
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If You're NearbyDahlonega and Helen
Georgia
America's first big gold rush town and an unlikely Bavarian village, in the North Georgia mountains.
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If You're NearbyMacon
Georgia
Home of the Allman Brothers, Otis Redding and Little Richard, with 1,000-year-old mounds and a famous spring of cherry blossoms.
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If You're NearbyPlains and the Jimmy Carter Sites
Georgia
The tiny peanut-farming town that produced President Jimmy Carter, who came back to live here and is buried here.
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If You're NearbyProvidence Canyon
Georgia
"Georgia's Little Grand Canyon": pink, orange and purple gullies, 150 feet deep, cut by poor farming in the 1800s.
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If You're NearbyRoosevelt's Little White House
Georgia
The modest Georgia cottage where Franklin Roosevelt came to swim, and where he died in 1945 while sitting for a portrait.
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If You're NearbyTallulah Gorge
Georgia
A two-mile canyon nearly 1,000 feet deep, with a swinging bridge over its falls, in the far northeast of Georgia.
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