Tag: 50 Best Things to do in Georgia
Watch hatchling turtles make their way to the ocean at dawn
Every year from around mid-May to the end of July, loggerhead sea turtles amble up Georgia beaches in the middle of the night to lay their nests. Around two months later, the tiny hatchlings emerge, making their way to the ocean guided by the reflection of moonlight.
String up a hammock between fallen trees on Driftwood Beach
At the end of an unassuming palmetto-lined path on Jekyll Island, you’ll find Driftwood Beach, a surreal natural sculpture garden of fallen trees.
Peer into a blue grotto at Radium Springs Gardens
The water’s searing blue hue is a result of trace amounts of radium, which was once believed to have healing powers.
Brake for boiled peanuts
In the South, you’ll spot hand-scrawled signs for boiled peanuts across the state’s back roads, but our favorite is Fred’s Famous Peanuts, outside Helen.
Get lost in a story at Flannery O’Connor’s farm
Pay homage to the eccentric Southern writer at her circa-1860 Plantation-style home in Milledgeville.
Dig back 17,000 years at the Ocmulgee National Monument
In the 1930s the country’s then-largest archaeological dig ever revealed hundreds of burial sites and excavated 2.5 million artifacts from more than 10,000 years of Southeastern Indian culture.
See Georgia through FDR’s eyes
An hour and a half south of Atlanta, you’ll find Franklin D. Roosevelt’s vacation cottage, the Little White House, and the warm springs where he swam for polio therapy.
Watch a dirt track race at the Dixie Speedway
Bring the kids, the grill, and a case of beer to get the full Saturday night tailgating experience at this authentic red clay racetrack in Woodstock.
Admire the antebellum and contemporary at SCAD Museum of Art
Cool, contemporary artwork isn’t the only draw at SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah. The building that houses it is itself destination-worthy.
Browse the Allman Brothers Band’s treasures
Hippies use front door! From 1969 to 1973, members of the Allman Brothers Band lived—and jammed—in a circa-1900 Tudor-style Macon home.
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