The honest constraint on a Georgia weekend is Friday afternoon traffic. Leave Atlanta at four and the first ninety minutes of any northbound trip will take two and a half hours; leave at seven and you arrive in the dark. Almost every disappointing weekend in this state starts with a drive time copied off a map, which is why the weekend getaways in Georgia below are ranked by what you can actually do between a realistic Friday arrival and a Sunday afternoon departure rather than by how far away they are.

Georgia is a big state — 250 miles from Atlanta to Savannah, 350 to the Florida line — and it divides into four weekends that work cleanly: the mountains, the coast, the small antebellum towns of the middle, and the strange, empty south. This page ranks fourteen of them, gives each a Friday-evening-to-Sunday shape, and is specific about the two things listicles never mention: what the fixed costs actually are, and how far ahead you have to book.

All fees were checked in September 2026 and are date-stamped. Drive times are from central Atlanta and assume you are leaving at a civilized hour; there are notes throughout for readers starting from Savannah, Augusta, Macon or Columbus, because roughly half the state does not live in Atlanta.

Choosing a Weekend

If you want…	Go to	Drive from Atlanta	Book ahead
A city break with history and food	Savannah	4 hr	4–8 weeks
A cabin, a porch and a lake	Blue Ridge	1 hr 45	6–12 months for October
A beach on a budget	Jekyll Island	5 hr	4–8 weeks
Something genuinely wild	Cumberland Island	6 hr to St. Marys	Up to 6 months
The shortest drive that still feels away	Dahlonega	1 hr 15	2–4 weeks
Music, food and a college town	Athens	1 hr 15	Avoid home game weekends
Serious hiking	Cloudland Canyon	2 hr	A year for the rim sites
Somewhere nobody else is going	The Okefenokee	4 hr 30	2–4 weeks; call first
A weekend with children	Helen and Unicoi	1 hr 45	2–3 months in summer
To do it without a car	Savannah, or Toccoa by train	—	See below

What a Georgia Weekend Actually Costs

Lodging is too variable to quote and moves by a factor of three between a February Tuesday and an October Saturday, so book that yourself. What nobody publishes is the fixed cost — the entry fees, ferries and parking that are the same whoever you are. These are the 2026 figures, and they are the numbers that decide whether a cheap weekend is actually cheap.

Fixed cost	2026 price	Notes
Georgia State Parks parking	$10 per vehicle per day	$70 annual; doubled on 1 January 2026
Jekyll Island entry	$10 per vehicle per day	Free on foot or by bicycle; +$5 on event days
Tybee Island parking	$25 day pass	Or $4/hour, enforced 08:00–20:00
Savannah city parking	$15 per day	Visitor pass, all garages and meters; $90 for a week
Cumberland Island	≈$59 per adult	$15 entrance for 7 days + $44 ferry
Brasstown Bald	$8 per person	Forest Service; $5 after hours
Anna Ruby Falls	$3 per person	Ages 16+; Forest Service
Callaway Gardens	$24.99 adult	$15.99 child; rate for the 1 Oct–1 Nov window
Helen Oktoberfest hall	$10–$15	Free on Sundays

The pattern worth noticing: a mountain weekend has almost no fixed costs beyond $10 a day of parking, while a coastal one can run to $120 for two people before a single meal. Budget accordingly rather than assuming the beach is the cheap option.

The Fourteen Weekends, Ranked

1. Savannah

4 hours. Two nights minimum. The best weekend in the state if you want a city rather than a landscape. Friday evening: arrive, park once in a garage on the $15-a-day visitor pass, eat in the southern squares. Saturday: walk Bull Street from City Hall to Forsyth Park, the Owens-Thomas House in the afternoon, River Street at dusk to watch a container ship slide past at eye level. Sunday: First African Baptist, brunch, home.

The drive is I-75 south to Macon then 160 empty miles of I-16, so fill up in Macon. Book four to eight weeks ahead, longer in spring, and avoid St. Patrick’s week entirely unless that is the point.

2. Blue Ridge

1 hour 45, four lanes the whole way. The default Georgia cabin weekend and the best one. Friday: drive up I-575 and GA-515, collect groceries in town, light a fire. Saturday: the 4-hour Extended run on the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway — from about $45 adult, with two hours off the train at the Tennessee line — then the afternoon in town. Sunday: Lake Blue Ridge or the Toccoa River, and Mercier Orchards on the way home if the apples are on.

Fall Foliage Train dates for 2026 run 19 September to 3 November and sell out first. October cabins go six to twelve months ahead.

3. Jekyll Island

5 hours, and worth every one. The best-value beach weekend in Georgia: $10 a car per day, free if you arrive on a bicycle, and twenty-odd miles of paved path around a state-managed island with a development cap. Friday evening: arrive, eat, walk Great Dunes. Saturday: Driftwood Beach within two hours of low tide, the Georgia Sea Turtle Center, the historic district by bike. Sunday: St. Andrews Beach for dolphins and the Wanderer memorial, then north.

4. Dahlonega and the wine country

1 hour 15 — the shortest drive on this list that still feels like leaving. A real town square around the 1836 courthouse, now the gold museum, in a town that had America’s first major gold rush twenty years before California. Friday: arrive in time for dinner on the square. Saturday: two wineries on the Dahlonega Plateau with a designated driver, the square in the afternoon. Sunday: Amicalola Falls on the way home, twenty-five minutes away, for the 604 steps or the easy upper viewpoint.

5. Athens

1 hour 15. A music town with a university attached, a dense and genuinely good downtown, and a food scene out of proportion to its size. The State Botanical Garden and the double-barreled cannon are the daytime, the music is the evening, and the whole thing is walkable from a downtown hotel. One rule: check the football schedule first. On a home game Saturday the population doubles, rooms treble and nothing is bookable — which is either the reason to go or the reason not to.

Two specifics worth knowing. The State Botanical Garden of Georgia is free and large enough to fill a morning, with a conservatory that works in the rain. And the town’s music history is not a museum piece — the venues that produced R.E.M. and the B-52s are still operating as venues, which makes Athens one of the few places in the state where a Saturday night is genuinely the reason to come rather than a filler.

6. Helen, Unicoi and the Russell highway

1 hour 45. The family answer. Helen is a Bavarian theme town invented in 1969 to rescue a failing timber economy, and if you go knowing that, it delivers exactly what it promises. Friday: arrive, eat, walk the river. Saturday: Anna Ruby Falls ($3 per person, easy paved half-mile) and Unicoi State Park, then the Richard B. Russell Scenic Highway over Hogpen Gap in the late afternoon. Sunday: Nacoochee Valley, or Babyland General Hospital in Cleveland if it rains.

Timing trap: tubing runs Memorial Day to Labor Day only, around $14 to $16 with shuttle, and it finishes before Oktoberfest starts. Oktoberfest 2026 runs 10 September to 1 November, with hall admission $10 Monday to Thursday, $15 Friday and Saturday, free on Sunday.

7. Cloudland Canyon and the northwest

2 hours. The serious hiking weekend. Friday: drive up and take a yurt or a rim campsite. Saturday: the Waterfalls Trail, over 600 metal steps down to Cherokee and Hemlock Falls, in the morning while your legs are fresh, then the 4.5-mile West Rim Loop. Sunday: Fort Mountain on the way home for the 855-foot prehistoric stone wall nobody can explain. Two ParkPass days at $10 each, and almost nothing else to pay for. Chattanooga is twenty-five minutes further if you want a city attached.

8. Macon

1 hour 30, and badly underrated. Macon has the Allman Brothers Band Museum in the house the band shared, the Otis Redding statue and foundation, a downtown of ornate Victorian commercial buildings, and Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park — 17,000 years of continuous human presence, a reconstructed earth lodge you can walk into with its 1,000-year-old clay floor intact, and platform mounds above the river. It is free and it is the oldest thing in Georgia by a very long way.

The city has around 350,000 Yoshino cherry trees and its festival runs ten days in late March. The 2027 dates had not been announced as of September 2026, so check cherryblossom.com rather than booking on a guess. A bill to redesignate Ocmulgee as Georgia’s first national park was introduced in June 2026 and is in committee, not law — so visit before the crowds find it.

9. Cumberland Island

6 hours to St. Marys, and a weekend that has to be planned like an expedition. Drive down Friday and stay in St. Marys so that a delayed drive does not cost you the boat. Saturday: the 45-minute ferry — $44 plus tax adult — plus $15 per person entrance, seventeen miles of empty beach, the burned Dungeness ruins and the feral horses. Reservations open six months ahead and sell out. The park is cashless and there is no food, water or shop on the island: carry everything, and more water than you think.

10. Columbus and the whitewater

1 hour 45 southwest. Columbus dammed and then partly undammed the Chattahoochee to create a 2.5-mile stretch of Class II–V dam-released whitewater running straight through downtown — billed as the longest urban whitewater course in the world. Whitewater Express has operated it since 2013 and is the only guided outfitter; there is no reliably published 2026 price, so book direct. Add the National Infantry Museum, which is free and genuinely good, and a riverwalk that is among the better ones in the South.

11. Madison and the Antebellum Trail

1 hour east, and the easiest overnight on this list. Madison is a small town of preserved 1800s houses that markets itself as “too pretty to burn”. That story is not true, and the truth is better: Sherman’s Left Wing did pass through and did burn the depot, the cotton gin and the war industry. The houses survived because Joshua Hill, a Madison resident and pro-Union congressman with a connection to Sherman’s brother, had arranged it in advance. Politics, not looks. Pair it with Eatonton, Milledgeville and Athens for a two-day loop.

The Antebellum Trail itself runs roughly a hundred miles from Athens down through Watkinsville, Madison, Eatonton, Milledgeville and on to Macon, and it is the best slow drive in middle Georgia. Milledgeville was the state capital until 1868 and has the Old Governor’s Mansion and Flannery O’Connor’s farm at Andalusia; Eatonton is Joel Chandler Harris country and has a small, complicated museum to show for it. None of these towns needs more than two hours, which is exactly why stringing four of them together makes a weekend.

12. The Okefenokee and Stephen C. Foster

4 hours 30 to Fargo, and the strangest weekend in Georgia. The swamp was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2026, the 27th in the United States — 353,981 acres, almost all designated Wilderness. Entry is $5 per vehicle for seven days. Stephen C. Foster State Park at the western entrance is an International Dark Sky Park and the night sky there is the real reason to come.

Two hard practicalities: the refuge runs no tours of its own — use Okefenokee Adventures (912-496-7156) or Stephen C. Foster (912-637-5274) — and low water has been limiting boat and trail access. Call before you drive four and a half hours.

13. Providence Canyon and the southwest

2 hours 30. Pink, orange and white clay gullies up to 150 feet deep with pines growing out of the floor, which Georgia sells as the “Little Grand Canyon”. It is not a natural canyon: it is an erosion scar cut over two centuries by poor farming on soft coastal-plain soil, and it is still growing. That is a better story than the sign tells. Three hours of walking, so pair it with Florence Marina or Kolomoki Mounds and stay the night rather than driving five hours for an afternoon.

14. Augusta

2 hours 15 east. A riverwalk on the Savannah River, the Augusta Canal, a good small museum quarter and — for one week a year — the Masters. On that: the lottery is the only official route, the application window is 1 to 20 June the year before, results come by late July and badges are mailed in March. Practice rounds are $125 Monday and Tuesday, $150 Wednesday including the Par-3 Contest, and $160 for each tournament round. One application per address, and most people lose. Plan an Augusta weekend for any of the other fifty-one.

Weekends From Somewhere Other Than Atlanta

If you are starting from Savannah, the coast is your back garden and the mountains are a six-hour commitment. The good short weekends are Jekyll and St. Simons at ninety minutes, Charleston at two hours, and the Okefenokee at two and a half — the last of which is far easier from Savannah than from Atlanta and correspondingly underused.

From Augusta, the northeast Georgia mountains are closer than they are from Atlanta: Clayton and Tallulah Gorge are about two and a half hours up US-441, and the whole Rabun County cluster opens up. Savannah is two and a half hours down I-16’s eastern end.

From Macon, you are genuinely central — Savannah, Atlanta, the mountains and the coast are all within three and a half hours, and the south Georgia weekends that are a slog from Atlanta become reasonable. From Columbus, Providence Canyon is under an hour, Callaway Gardens and F.D. Roosevelt are forty minutes, and the whole southwest is a day trip rather than a weekend.

Doing It Without a Car

This is harder in Georgia than in most states, and worth being straight about. There is one intercity passenger train: Amtrak’s daily Crescent, New York to New Orleans, which stops in Georgia at Toccoa, Gainesville, Atlanta (Peachtree) and Doraville. Toccoa is served at 06:15 southbound and 21:40 northbound; Gainesville arrives 08:43 and departs 09:08, with Atlanta departing 10:30 northbound. One train each way per day means a delay costs you a day, and neither Toccoa nor Gainesville is walkable to much.

Savannah is the one genuinely car-free weekend in the state. It sits on Amtrak’s north–south Silver Service corridor, the station is a few miles west of the historic district, and once you are downtown the whole thing is walkable, with a free ferry across the river and a free downtown shuttle. Buses run Atlanta to Savannah several times a day and take longer than driving but cost less.

Everywhere else on this list needs a vehicle. Rental from Hartsfield-Jackson for a Friday-to-Sunday is usually cheaper than a weekday rate, which is worth knowing if you are visiting rather than resident.

Booking Windows That Actually Matter

• Cumberland Island ferry — opens six months ahead and sells out. This is the tightest booking on the list.
• State park cabins and cottages — 13 months ahead, or 14 for Georgia residents, who take the best October dates before anyone else sees the calendar.
• North Georgia cabins in October — six to twelve months. The good ones go at the longer end.
• Blue Ridge Fall Foliage Train — book as soon as dates open; the 2026 window was 19 September to 3 November.
• Sapelo Island — Saturday tours need a reservation on 912-437-3224; Wednesday tours run 08:30–12:30.
• Tallulah Gorge floor permits — cannot be booked at all. Free, 100 per day, from 08:00 at the interpretive center, and gone by 09:00 on summer weekends.
• The Masters — lottery applications 1–20 June the year before.
• Athens — avoid home football Saturdays unless you are going for one.

Festivals Worth Planning a Weekend Around

Georgia’s festival calendar is unusually good and unusually badly documented, and a weekend built around one is almost always better than the same weekend two weeks later. The ones that justify the drive:

• Helen Oktoberfest — the longest in the United States, running 10 September to 1 November in 2026, Thursday to Sunday in September and daily from 1 October. Hall admission $10 Monday–Thursday, $15 Friday and Saturday, free Sunday.
• Macon International Cherry Blossom Festival — ten days in late March, around 350,000 Yoshino cherry trees. The 2026 festival ran 20–29 March; 2027 dates had not been announced as of September 2026, so check cherryblossom.com rather than booking on an assumption.
• Ellijay’s apple season — not a single festival but a two-month run from late August into November, peaking in October, across a dozen apple houses.
• Jekyll Island’s event days — Independence Day, Shrimp & Grits and Holly Jolly Jekyll each add $5 to the daily vehicle fee, which is a reasonable trade for what you get.
• Savannah’s St. Patrick’s Day — one of the largest parades in the country, dating to 1824. Either come for it deliberately or avoid the week; there is no middle option, and rates and minimum stays reflect that.

The general rule with Georgia festivals is that the small-town ones — sorghum in Blairsville, mule day in the south, county fairs through October — are better value and more interesting than the large branded ones, and they are almost never on the itineraries that visitors arrive with.

Getting Out of Atlanta on a Friday

This deserves its own section because it is the single biggest variable in a two-night trip. Atlanta congestion is not confined to rush hour, and the Friday afternoon peak on the outbound corridors starts earlier and lasts longer than the weekday one.

Practical rules. Northbound on GA-400, leave before 14:00 or after 19:00; the crawl runs from the Perimeter well past Cumming. Northwest on I-75 and I-575, the same window, with the added problem that I-75 through Cobb is one of the busiest stretches of interstate in the country. Southeast on I-75 toward Macon is marginally kinder, so a Savannah or coast weekend suffers less from a late start than a mountain one.

Two workarounds worth the effort. First, eat dinner in town and leave at seven — you will lose the evening but gain an hour, and most cabins and hotels will hold a late check-in if you call. Second, for the mountains, take Friday afternoon off rather than Monday morning: a 13:00 departure and a 15:00 arrival buys a genuine extra half-day, which on a two-night trip is a twenty-five percent increase in the weekend.

Coming back, the Sunday afternoon southbound queue on GA-400 and GA-515 builds from about 15:00. Leave at noon and stop for lunch on the way, or leave at six and eat before you go.

When It Rains

Georgia gets short, violent afternoon thunderstorms from May to September and long gray fronts in winter, and a weekend can survive both if you have a fallback.

In the mountains, the reliable wet-weather answers are the Blue Ridge train, the Dahlonega Gold Museum, wine tastings, and Babyland General in Cleveland with children. Waterfalls are better in the rain, not worse — Amicalola and Anna Ruby are both short paved walks. In Savannah the museums cover a full day. On the coast, the Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll is an indoor hospital, and Fort Pulaski’s casemates are under cover. In Macon and Columbus, the museums are the point anyway.

The genuinely weather-dependent weekends are Cumberland Island, the Okefenokee and Providence Canyon, all of which are long drives to spend outdoors with no indoor alternative within an hour. Those are the three to move rather than push through.

Three More, If You Have Done the Obvious Ones

Rome and the Cherokee corridor, an hour and fifteen minutes northwest, is the most overlooked short weekend in the state. Rome sits where three rivers meet, has a clock tower on a hill and a genuinely pleasant downtown, and is the base for New Echota — the capital of the Cherokee Nation until removal in 1838, now a state historic site with reconstructed buildings and the print shop that produced the Cherokee Phoenix. Chieftains Museum in Rome and Etowah Indian Mounds near Cartersville complete a weekend that tells a part of Georgia’s story most visitors never encounter. Remember that historic sites charge per person and the ParkPass does not cover them.

Thomasville and south Georgia, four hours down I-75, is a different country: a red-brick downtown that has been continuously prosperous since the 1880s, when northern families wintered here, and the longleaf pine plantations around it. It is close enough to Tallahassee to make a two-state weekend, and it is the antidote to the assumption that Georgia below Macon is only interstate.

The lakes — Burton, Chatuge, Blue Ridge, Nottely, Allatoona and Lanier — are where Georgians actually spend summer weekends, and they barely appear on visitor lists. Lanier is closest to Atlanta at about an hour and correspondingly busiest; Burton in Rabun County is the prettiest and the most expensive; Carters Lake, west of Ellijay, is the deepest in the state with almost no private development on it, which makes it the best for paddling and the quietest for camping. A lake house for two nights in June is the most genuinely local weekend on this page.

Seasonal Notes

Spring is the best all-round season, with one warning: pine pollen coats north and central Georgia in late March and April and the counts run into the thousands. May is the compromise.

Summer means the coast, the lakes and the tubing, with an early start anywhere involving stairs. It is also hurricane season on the coast, formally 1 June to 30 November, with real risk from mid-August.

Autumn is peak demand in the mountains. Fall color runs the last ten days of October above 3,000 feet and into early November lower down. The last two Saturdays of October are the busiest days of the year up there — go midweek, or go to the coast instead, where September and October are quietly the best months of all.

Winter is the value season everywhere. Mountain cabin rates halve, the canyon parks are transformed by leafless trees, and Savannah and the coast are mild and empty. The only real risk is ice, which shuts north Georgia roads for a day or two once every few years.

What to Skip

Three honest verdicts to save you a weekend.

Do not build a weekend around Stone Mountain. It is a good half-day — $20 parking buys the trails, the picnic grounds and the evening show — but it is sixteen miles from downtown Atlanta and does not fill two days. Those figures are from secondary sources, since the park keeps prices inside its booking flow, so confirm before you go.

Do not drive to Providence Canyon and back in a day. Five hours of driving for three hours of walking is the single most common mistake in south Georgia weekends.

Do not plan a Masters trip without a badge already in hand. The lottery is the only official route, the odds are poor, and Augusta in tournament week without a ticket is an expensive town with nothing to do.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best weekend getaway from Atlanta?

Blue Ridge for a cabin weekend at an hour forty-five on a four-lane road, or Dahlonega if you want the shortest drive that still feels like leaving. Savannah is the best weekend in the state outright, but four hours each way makes it a three-day trip rather than two.

How far is Savannah from Atlanta?

About 250 miles and four hours, via I-75 south to Macon then I-16 east. The I-16 stretch is 160 miles with very little on it, so refuel in Macon.

What is the cheapest weekend in Georgia?

A state park cabin or campsite in the mountains in winter. Fixed costs are $10 a day of parking, cabin rates drop by half off-season, and the hiking is free. By contrast a coastal weekend can run to $120 in fees for two people before you have eaten.

How far ahead do I need to book?

Cumberland Island six months. State park cabins up to 13 months, or 14 if you are a Georgia resident. North Georgia cabins for an October weekend, six to twelve months. Most other weekends, two to eight weeks is plenty outside peak season.

Can you do a Georgia weekend without a car?

Savannah, comfortably — it is on Amtrak’s Silver Service route, buses run from Atlanta several times a day, and the historic district is walkable with a free ferry and shuttle. Everywhere else needs a vehicle. The only other rail option is the daily Crescent, which stops at Toccoa and Gainesville once in each direction.

Where should I go with kids?

Helen and Unicoi for the river, the falls and the theme-town novelty; Jekyll Island for the beach, the bikes and the Sea Turtle Center; or Macon for the Ocmulgee earth lodge, which children tend to like far more than adults expect.

When is the worst time to go to the north Georgia mountains?

The last two Saturdays in October. Peak color, peak crowds, gridlock in Helen and Blue Ridge and no cabins left. Go midweek in that window, or shift a fortnight either side.

What is the most underrated weekend in Georgia?

Macon. Ninety minutes from Atlanta, with Ocmulgee Mounds, the Allman Brothers house, Otis Redding and an intact Victorian downtown, and almost nobody makes a weekend of it.

Most of the mountain weekends above are cabin weekends, and the cabin is usually the largest single line in the budget — larger than it looks, because the advertised nightly rate is roughly 45% below what you actually pay once Georgia’s lodging taxes and the cleaning fee land. Our guide to cabins in Georgia works a full example, compares county by county, and covers the road, signal and view questions worth asking before you book.

Several of the trips above work perfectly well as a single day if you are already based in Atlanta, and a few of them are much better that way than stretched over a night. Our guide to day trips from Atlanta sorts twenty destinations by realistic weekend drive time rather than the figure the mapping app gives at three in the morning, with a timed plan for each and a straight verdict on which ones genuinely need an overnight.

Two nights leaves no room for a badly chosen base, which is why the getaways on this page are organized around towns you can settle into rather than places you can merely reach. For longer trips, or for working out whether Savannah, Jekyll or Blue Ridge is the right anchor in the first place, our guide to where to stay in Georgia sets out the day-trip radius of each base and what a room in it actually costs.

Some of these two-night trips work rather differently when there are only two of you and the occasion has a date attached to it. Our guide to romantic getaways in Georgia sorts the same destinations by what you are actually celebrating, with two-night runbooks, honest budget bands and the permit rules that apply if a proposal involves a hired photographer.

Autumn changes the arithmetic on all of this, because the supply of beds in cabin country is a few thousand rentals across five rural counties and the third weekend of October is taken by spring. Our guide to fall weekend getaways in Georgia matches each mountain base to the weekend its color actually arrives, covers the apple festival dates and the trails, and sets out the lower-elevation alternatives for when the cabins are gone.

Related Georgia Guides

• North Georgia mountains guide — the base towns compared, fall color by elevation, and how the cabin market works.
• Best Georgia beaches and islands — which islands you can drive to, ferry rules and 2026 fees.
• Savannah travel guide — the $15 parking pass, where to stay and two-to-four-day itineraries.
• Best Georgia state parks — all 49 by drive time, with the ParkPass rules and booking windows.
• Best places to visit in Georgia — 35 destinations across the state.

Photo Credits

Public Square, Dahlonega (featured image): photo by Gwringle / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Athens-Clarke County Courthouse, downtown Athens: photo by Upstateherd / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Earth Lodge, Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park: photo by Riis2602 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

North Main Street, Madison: photo by Upstateherd / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Driftwood Beach, Jekyll Island: photo by XeresNelro / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Sources and Corrections

Park and attraction fees were checked in September 2026 against Georgia State Parks, the Jekyll Island Authority, the City of Tybee Island, the City of Savannah, the National Park Service, the US Forest Service, the US Fish and Wildlife Service and Callaway Gardens. Blue Ridge Scenic Railway fares and Fall Foliage Train dates are from the operator. Helen Oktoberfest dates and admission are per the Helen Chamber of Commerce. Amtrak Crescent stops and times are per the published timetable and the City of Toccoa; fares are dynamic and not quoted. Masters ticket figures are as reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Golf Digest. Stone Mountain figures are secondary and hedged. Lodging rates vary too widely to publish and none are quoted here. Fees change; if you find something here out of date, we want to know.

Georgia Tourism Guide is an independent publication. We are not affiliated with Explore Georgia, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the National Park Service or any attraction listed here.