Hart State Park

Hart State Park is located at Hart State Park Road off Highway 29N about two miles north of Hartwell, Georgia. The park opened in 1968 as a recreation facility and offers 56,000 acres of lake waters and 962 miles of shoreline that stretches into South Carolina. Visitors can enter the park throughout the year between the hours of 7am and 10pm.

Numerous activities are available at the park including fishing with largemouth bass, catfish, bream and walleyed pike among the fish to be found in Lake Hartwell. Other watersports are permitted on the lake too including swimming, canoeing, sail boating and water skiing. Heading to the lake through some rolling hills there is a half mile nature trail that can be used by hikers and cyclists.

For those wishing to stay at the park for any length of time there are 76 tent and trailer campsites located here, all with water, electricity, picnic tables and grills. For children there are playgrounds in the day use area and in the campground, whilst volleyball, basketball and horseshoe pits can be found in the recreation area. From time to time music events and lectures are conducted from the Cricket Theater, which is an outdoor stage area in the park.