Georgia Park List

Visitors to this quiet park can enjoy camping, fishing, horseback riding and other activities while also learning about a key officer in the American Civil War. Named after the vice president of the Confederacy and governor of Georgia, the park features a Confederate museum with one of the finest ...

Albany Nursery WMA is located in the Upper Coastal Plain in an area of the State known for its large quail plantations. Traditionally an agricultural area, the WMA has a mixture of fields and forest that appeals to a wide variety of wildlife species. ...

Alexander Wildlife Management Area is one of Georgia's many wildlife management areas. In fact, Georgia's Department of Natural Resources is proud to say that there's one within an hour's drive of every Georgian. This WMA is located in eastern Georgia and is a two hour's drive from Savannah. The ...

Allatoona Lake is one of the most frequently visited U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lakes in the nation. Located only 30 miles from Atlanta, more than 6 million visitors each year enjoy picnicking, camping, hunting, fishing, swimming and other water sports, and observing the abundant wildlife along the shores ...

Allatoona Wildlife Management Area is one of Georgia's many wildlife management areas. In fact, Georgia's Department of Natural Resources is proud to say that there's one within an hour's drive of every Georgian. This WMA is located in northwestern Georgia and is only an hour's drive from the big ...

This is a Wildlife Management Area open to hunting (Archery Only Area) according to the following regulations and conditions: Deer - (Either Sex): Sept. 13-Jan. 1; Sign-In. Turkey - Mar. 21-May 15; Sign-In. Small Game - Aug 15-Feb. 28; Sign-In. No night ...

The Altamaha Waterfowl Management Area consists of 3,154 acres of managed waterfowl impoundments and some 27,000 acres of bottomland hardwoods and cypress-tupelo swamps. The waterfowl impoundments are in three units. Each unit provides a different type of hunting opportunity: Butler is hunted by quota only, Champney is ...

Amicalola Falls State Park is an 829-acre Georgia state park located between Ellijay and Dahlonega in Dawsonville, Georgia. It's easy to see why this is one of Georgia's most popular state parks. Amicalola, a Cherokee Indian word meaning "tumbling waters," is an appropriate name for these 729-foot falls ~~ ...

Andersonville, or Camp Sumter as it was officially known, was one of the largest of many Confederate military prisons established during the Civil War. It was built early in 1864 after Confederate officials decided to move the large number of Federal prisoners kept in and around Richmond, Virginia, ...

Anna Ruby Falls is one of the most outstanding recreational sites in the forest. Its twin waterfalls, hiking trails, picnic area, visitor center and easy access from the nearby town of Helen, GA make it the single most visited national forest facility in Georgia. It's normal hours are from 9 ...

Arrowhead is located at the Wildlife Resources Division-Game Management Section Regional office near Armuchee. The 400-acre Wildlife Management Area was originally a farming community and later developed into a privately owned fish hatchery. Bought by the state in 1968, the hatchery was operational until 1979. Today the 14 hatchery ...

B. F. GRANT Wildlife Management Area is one of Georgia's many wildlife management areas. In fact, Georgia's Department of Natural Resources is proud to say that there's one within an hour's drive of every Georgian. This WMA is located an hour and fifteen minutes east of Atlanta. The wildlife ...

Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is located in Lanier County, near Lakeland, GA, as part of a much larger blackwater system. The refuge was established in 1985 for the protection and conservation of this unique environment as well as migratory and resident wildlife. Banks Lake is ...

The Beaverdam WMA consists of 12,000 acres in Wilkinson and Laurens counties. The Laurens County tract, which lies at the Fall Line along the northern edge of the Coastal Plain, offers the opportunity to experience one of the best stands of mature bottomland hardwood on the entire Oconee River. ...

A 30,000-acre mosaic of rural college campus, wildlife refuge, public hunting lands, and public fishing areas, the unique Berry College WMA contains virtually all of the habitats that occur in northwest Georgia - wide creek flood plains, open grassland, steep mountain slopes, reservoirs, old fields, wetlands, and mountaintop ridges. ...

Big Dukes Pond Natural Area is one of Georgia's many wildlife management areas. In fact, Georgia's Department of Natural Resources is proud to say that there's one within an hour's drive of every Georgian. This WMA is located in eastern Georgia. The wildlife management area extends over 1,692 acres. ...

Big Hammock Natural Area and WMA are located along the north bank of the Altamaha River. The WMA consists of 6,177 acres of primarily bottomland hardwoods with many oxbow lakes and sloughs. The Natural Area includes an adjoining 800-acre sand ridge with a variety of habitat types, ranging from ...

This is a 5,900 acre Wildlife Management Area (WMA) and Public Fishing Area (PFA) open to seasonal hunting and fishing in addition to other activities year round. This 195-acre public fishing lake is located on Big Lazer Creek Wildlife Management Area in Talbot County between Talbotton and Thomaston, Georgia. Big ...

Black Rock Mountain State Park, named for its sheer cliffs of dark-colored biotite gneiss, encompasses some of the most outstanding country in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains. Located astride the Eastern Continental Divide at an altitude of 3,640 feet, Black Rock Mountain is the highest state park in Georgia. Numerous ...

Blackbeard Island was acquired by the Navy Department at public auction in 1800 as a source of live oak timber for ship building. In 1924 the island was placed under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Biological Survey to be maintained as a preserve and breeding ground for ...

Blanton Creek Wildlife Management Area is one of Georgia's many wildlife management areas. In fact, Georgia's Department of Natural Resources is proud to say that there's one within an hour's drive of every Georgian. This WMA is located on Georgia's western border with Alabama. The wildlife management area extends ...

This is a 38,900 acre Wildlife Management Area within the Chattahoochee National Forest open to hunting seasonally and all other activities year-round. Blue Ridge Wildlife Management Area is one of Georgia's many wildlife management areas. In fact, Georgia's Department of Natural Resources is proud to say that there's one within ...

This pretty park offers watersports enthusiasts a quiet oasis on 70,000-acre Clarks Hill Lake. Located where the old town of Petersburg once thrived during the 1790s, the park is named in memory of Lt. Robert T. Brown, U.S. Navy, who gave his life in World War II. Petersburg was ...

Bond Swamp NWR, located 6 miles south of Macon, was established in 1989 to protect, maintain and enhance the forested wetland ecosystem of the Ocmulgee River floodplain. It opened to the public in 2000 and currently consists of 6,500 acres situated along the fall line separating the ...

The hatchery raises Morone hybrid bass for stocking into public reservoirs while largemouth bass, bluegill, redear sunfish (shellcracker), and channel catfish are raised for stocking into private ponds. Some channel catfish are grown to catchable size for stocking into Public Fishing Areas and for kids fishing events. Some largemouth ...

Broad River Natural Area covers 440 acres along the Broad River in Northeast Georgia's Madison County. This state-owned property was created from two contiguous tracts bought in 1996 and 1998 with funds from RiverCare 2000, a statewide land acquisition program funded by a combination of hunting and fishing license ...

Broad River Wildlife Management Area is one of Georgia's many wildlife management areas. In fact, Georgia's Department of Natural Resources is proud to say that there's one within an hour's drive of every Georgian. This WMA is located in northeast Georgia, relatively close to the South Carolina, Georgia border. ...

The Buford Trout Hatchery rears brown trout (Salmo trutta) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) for the Georgia Wildlife Resources Division's stockable and fingerling trout programs. The trout range in size from just a few inches long to the "Show and Tell" fish, which weigh more than 10 pounds. The ...

Bullard Creek Wildlife Management Area is one of Georgia's many wildlife management areas. In fact, Georgia's Department of Natural Resources is proud to say that there's one within an hour's drive of every Georgian. This WMA is located in the southwestern region of Georgia. The wildlife management area extends ...

Lake Burton Fish Hatchery is located in a rural, mountainous area of Rabun County in extreme northeast Georgia. Lake Burton, a 2,700-acre Georgia Power Company lake, borders the facility on it's eastern side with the Chattahoochee National Forest forming the northern and western boundaries. Forest types include stands of ...