Of the two lakes that make up Middle Georgia’s “Lake Country,” only one—Oconee—has established itself in the Atlanta lexicon. Read More

We knew we’d hit the big leagues when we pulled up to the roadside bait shack near Clarks Hill Lake. Read More

Lake Lanier isn’t Georgia’s largest lake, but it is the closest major reservoir to Atlanta, the state’s most visited, and perhaps its most notorious. Read More

The classic order at the Skylight Inn in Ayden, North Carolina—about ninety miles from Raleigh—is a tray, rather than a sandwich, that includes a small red-and-white-checkered tub mounded with frilly, pink-beige pork; a thin, rectangular slab of unsweetened cornbread glossed with hog fat; and a boat of milky, minced coleslaw. Read More