Sweetwater Creek State Park
This park is a beautiful place to spend a quiet afternoon, and the trails offer a shaded respite from the summer heat, with the added bonus of paddling on the lake to cool off.
The Galloping Galette & Mulberry Riverwalk
The trail is wide, easy to follow, relatively flat, and the perfect way to spend a beautiful afternoon.
Amicalola Falls State Park & Lodge
I can’t wait to go back to Amicalola – it’s one of the parks that I visit again and again. I love that every trip feels a little different than the last, and there are always new and wonderful things to do because the area has so many attractions.
Helton Creek Falls
Helton Creek is my favorite kind of falls – loud, imposing, stacked rock that rises into the sky, the kind of place that I could spend for hours, listening to the water as it plunges into the pool below. The white noise is captivating, and seems to help clear some of the static from day-to-day life.
Atlanta Botanical Gardens – Gainesville
If you’ve got the opportunity to visit the Gainesville campus of the Atlanta Botanical Gardens, I cannot recommend it enough! Such a beautiful way to spend the afternoon, and I know it was certainly the thing that I needed to help recharge my batteries.
Phinzy Swamp Nature Park
This is a beautiful park, and one that I would definitely revisit in the future if I travel through Augusta.
Bonaventure Cemetery
I have a little bit of a love affair with Bonaventure Cemetery, located near historic Savannah, GA. But more than that, I just adore Corinne Lawton, one of the cemeteries inhabitants.
Wormsloe State Historic Site
The iconic 1.5 mile drive has over 400 live oak trees, thought to be nearly 400 years old.
Skidaway Island State Park
Despite the rain, I really enjoyed my visit to Skidaway Island State Park, and will be sure to add this to my future visits to Savannah, GA, as there are many other trails that I would like to explore – perhaps without rain next time!
Providence Canyon State Park
Providence Canyon is actually the consequences of poor farming practices of the 1800s, which stripped the land of its topsoil and caused uncontrolled flood and erosion, carving canyons almost 150 feet deep into the barren, sandy soil.