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Experience glamping at Sweetwater Creek State Park’s new yurt village
Camping gets a glamorous makeover at Sweetwater Creek State Park. With the opening of Yurt Village, which consists of ten wooden-and-canvas structures nestled in the woods and overlooking the most sapphire of lakes, you...
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Dine in Dahlonega
Located just an hour north of the perimeter, Dahlonega offers a little something for everyone. From charming shops and restaurants around the Square to mountain trails for cycling and hiking to award-winning wineries on...
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Serenity in the City
From fifteen stories up, Buckhead doesn’t look like my neighborhood. It looks like snaking roads filled with unfamiliar cars driven by people I don’t have a chance of knowing. As I stand on the...
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Three Georgia getaways for wine lovers
With its long growing season, cool nights, and—according to the Winegrowers Association of Georgia—soil composition similar to that of Italy's Piedmont region, North Georgia is rapidly distinguishing itself as a wine destination. There is no...
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Always a perfect afternoon
Call it kismet, but Afternoon in the Country seems to fall on a perfect November Sunday year after year. The sky is always cloudless and blue and the air just cool enough to make...
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Four famous Georgia cemeteries—plus four lesser-known plots worth a visit.
1. You may have visited: Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta
Atlanta’s preeminent cemetery showcases the city’s rich culture and racially fraught past in a landscaped oasis. The resting place of author Margaret Mitchell, golfer Bobby Jones, six Georgia governors, and 27...
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11 places to find Georgia’s best fall color
By now, most of us are a few football tailgates and a half-dozen pumpkin spice lattes into fall. But the woodlands of North Georgia are still mostly green, with hints of color in the understory. So says...
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Good country music: Andalusia Farm hosts 11th annual Bluegrass Festival
While Flannery O’Connor probably could not have imagined her backyard overtaken by hundreds of banjo enthusiasts, it's safe to assume she wouldn’t have minded. The author, confined by illness to her family farm in Milledgeville during...
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Getting the flavor of downtown Clayton
Travelers to northeast Georgia are often looking to escape civilization, perhaps via a peaceful skim across Lake Rabun or an invigorating hike into Tallulah Gorge. But when the mood strikes to hear the din of a bustling dining room or sidle up...
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150 years later, a funeral for Andersonville’s dead
A century and a half after they perished from disease, deprivation, or battle wounds, Andersonville’s fallen are finally getting a funeral. To cap more than a year of programming marking the Civil War prison’s 150th anniversary, the national historic site is staging a series of events history buffs will not want to miss.