Georgia's Most Underrated Gems (Atlanta, Thomasville: home, shop, teaching)

[Bulldawgfan]

Originally Posted by NCN

I don't know enough about the places in your poll to make a choice, but there is a place in Georgia that I have been wanting to visit for years.

Callaway Gardens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hope I make it there some time this year. Can someone tell me when is the best time to visit.

I went this last year for the Christmas light thingy. You gotta go! Worth every single penny in my opinion.

[southgeorgia]

thomasville is pretty nice. we go to a lot of events they hold at the old plantations. my favorite is their 'victorian Christmas' held downtown every year. they close off the streets, all the stores remain open, and they have a variety of food vendors, specialty merchandise, magicians, musicians, and they cover the front lawn of the courthouse with snow for the kids. its always a blast. the headquarters for flower's foods is located in thomasville, and at christmas they have the entire complex decorated with lights and various figures in Christmas scenes. when my son was still going to school in thomasville, we had to drive him by there every night to see it. there is very good hunting in thomasville also, especially quail. foreign dignitaries and US congressmen, vice president, etc. . . come there to hunt. dick cheney flew over our farm about three years ago heading in for a quail hunt. it was quite a sight watching all those marine choppers fly over. as far as i know, he didn't shoot anyone. and thomasville has one of the best outdoor sportsman shops around; Kevin's. They have another location in tallahassee, but its nothing compared to the one in downtown t-ville.

my favorite in georgia though is the golden isles.

[lilmusket]

The Plantation tours around Thomasville are quite nice. I highly recommend it.

[lilmusket]

Does anyone know when the Madison Tour of Homes is?? I'm pretty sure it's sometime in the Spring. It's definately wiorth checking out. I went to it several years ago and enjoyed it.

[ATLCOL1]

Originally Posted by Bulldawgfan

I went this last year for the Christmas light thingy. You gotta go! Worth every single penny in my opinion.

Pine Mountain is overlooked in my opinion. Beautiful area north of Columbus and just south of Atlanta.

[westga]

so hard to choose. so true. I just love GA HWY 36, between Woodland and Thomaston. Crosses the Flint River.
And Providence Canyons.

[MoreCowbell]

Maybe it is because I grew up there but Pine Mountain and Callaway aren't all that spectacular to me. Fantasy In Lights is nice, I like doing the March of Dimes walk-through in late November. The trolley is also fun but COLD. Other good times to visit are the summer for the FSU circus, late March-early April for the azaleas, and late August for the hot air balloon festival. Don't stay at the hotel though, do a cabin or villa if you stay at Callaway. I heard that the lake/beach is going to be for residents only soon though, which is too bad because it is nice in the summer.
I voted for Dahlonega but I love Amicalola (sp?) Falls, Sapelo Island/Hog Hammock for the Gullah culture, Warm Springs for FDR's Little White House, the Chickamauga battlefield and Andersonville.

[King_X]

How about Milledgeville? A nice size smaller city/big town....has quite a few shopping centers, a little mall, and eating places...so its not really in the middle of no where. It's an Old Capital of GA with nice architecture, and a nice sized college. Everytime I go up to milledgeville there are good bit of people downtown for its size, mostly students from the college (my age range), and again the architecture is very nice. It's an underrated gem to me.

[MoreCowbell]

Two places I can't believe I forgot are the Okefenokee Swamp (if I spelled that right I'm pretty impressed with myself) and Cumberland Island. Wild horses on the beach in Georgia? Amazing!

[Saintmarks]

Would have voted for Callaway/Pine Mountain if it had been listed. Also close by is Warm Springs, The Little White House and FDR State Park. One of the nicest corners of Georgia.

I did vote for Cloudland Canyon as it is in the upper NW corner of the state and not in the line of sight for many.

Would give an honorable mention to Anna Ruby Falls and Amicalola Falls.

A truly hidden gem is the Flint River as it passes thru the Pine Mountain ridge at Sprewell Bluff. Does anybody remember the rafting trip Jimmy Carter took as governor that stopped the damming of the Flint at this point?