Travel Information for Georgia Hotel Guests
If you are searching for an inn, hotel, motel or resort near a Georgia attraction, amusement and theme parks, or close to shopping, cultural events, historic sites, museums and performing arts centers, or nearby zoos, a festival, a golf course, a Georgia state park, this is where you will find it.
GEORGIA is not only about mint juleps on the porch of an antebellum mansion and enjoying traditional Southern hospitality. Georgia has exciting destinations that are fun for the whole family, from interactive museums to waterparks and zoos to the thrills and spills of a world-class amusement park; and outdoors to state parks brimming with Civil War history, panning for gold in the Georgia Mountains, hiking the Appalachian Trail, shooting the Chattanooga River rapids and enjoying the beaches and golf courses along the Coast at charming Savannah and the beautiful Brunswick & The Golden Islands.
ANDERSONVILLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE is a memorial to all American prisoners of war throughout the nation's history; the 495-acre park consists of the historic prison site where almost 13,000 Union soldiers perished during the Civil War, and the National Cemetery.
Just below the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains lies ATHENS and the State Botanical Garden of Georgia.
With Southern charm and cosmopolitan flair, ATLANTA is the vibrant heart of Georgia; the real story of Atlanta's people and places comes alive at the Atlanta History Center and in the Center’s historic houses, plantation and gardens; there is a guided tour of the turn-of-the-century Margaret Mitchell House and Gone With The Wind Museum, where Margaret Mitchell wrote her Pulitzer Prize winning novel; located in the heart of downtown Atlanta is Centennial Olympic Park, a 21-acre legacy from the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games and across the street, the 30,000-square-foot Children’s Museum of Atlanta (CMA); Atlanta is also home to the world renowned Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Woodruff Arts Center and the High Museum of Art; other attractions include the Georgia Aquarium, the world's largest, and the World of Coca-Cola where the story of the world’s best-selling soft drink is told.
Long known as the South's “Garden City”, AUGUSTA, home of the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame, is on the banks of the Savannah River; the Augusta Museum of History features the award-winning "Augusta's Story" which chronicles the events, people and the forces that have shaped the Augusta community; only minutes from downtown Augusta is Phinizy Swamp Nature Park, a swampland operated as a bird and wildlife preserve.
Along with mainland Brunswick, the four islands found amid the clusters of barrier islands that hug Georgia's historic Atlantic Coastline are known collectively as BRUNSWICK & THE GOLDEN ISLES; they are St. Simons Island, Little St. Simons Island, Sea Island and Jekyll Island.
Although nearly two centuries have passed since COLUMBUS was planned on the banks of the Chattahoochee River, it is still still first and foremost a Rivertown; its Historic District has over 20 blocks of period renovation of homes, restaurants and businesses; the Coca-Cola Space Science Center houses a Challenger Learning Center (for simulated space missions), and the Port Columbus Civil War Naval Center covers the history of naval operations during the Civil War.
CUMBERLAND is known for sea turtles, abundant shore birds, dune fields, its maritime forest, salt marshes, and historic structures. In the GEORGIA MOUNTAINS north of Atlanta visitors can enjoy the beauty of Tallulah Gorge, and the grandeur of Amicalola Falls; they can ride a white-water raft down the Chattooga River, pan for gold in Dahlonega, tour a winery, hike the Appalachian Trail or the Chieftains Trail, fish for bass on Lake Lanier, explore the Etowah Indian Mounds, or shop for crafts and unique mountain gifts.
At FORT OGLETHORPE Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park is the oldest and largest military park in the nation.
Georgia's quaint Bavarian village HELEN depicts the North Georgia mountains way of life.
KENNESAW is home to the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield and, at the Kennesaw Civil War Museum, to "The General", the Civil War locomotive made famous on April 12, 1862 when it was stolen by federal spies.
Historic JONESBORO was a Civil War battle site and the historical foundation of Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With The Wind"; Ashley Oaks Mansion is an 1880s planter's town home.
From country legends to big band sounds and southern rock, Georgia's rich musical heritage and its worldwide impact come to life at the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in MACON; the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame features Georgia's storied athletic heritage; Cannonball House & Civil War Museum was the only house in Moon struck by a cannonball during a Federal attack in 1864.
Five national historic districts and Confederate and National cemeteries make MARIETTA a “must see” for history buffs; it also has the largest water park in the Southeast, Six Flags - WhiteWater; next door is American Adventures, an amusement park designed just for kids. Built on the side of PINE MOUNTAIN in 1932 by president Franklin D. Roosevelt, the six-room Little White House in WARM SPRINGS still looks much like it did the day he died there in 1945; Callaway Gardens are 14,000 acres of gardens, woodlands, lakes, wildlife and recreation.
PLAINS is the hometown of former President Jimmy Carter; the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site includes President Carter’s residence, boyhood farm, school, and the railroad depot, which served as his campaign headquarters during the 1976 election.
Bits and pieces of SAVANNAH's rich, colorful history adorn virtually every corner of the downtown area; the stately mansions, moss-draped oaks, and massive churches give the city a unique flavor; at Old River Street, the Riverfront Plaza is a 9-block esplanade facing the Savannah River dotted with fountains, benches, museums, pubs, restaurants, shops - all housed in old cotton warehouses which border the Plaza; the Second African Baptist Church is where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. first preached his "I Have a Dream" sermon.
The restored 19th Century railroad town of STONE MOUNTAIN VILLAGE is located at Stone Mountain Park which has the world's largest carving on its face.
At WARNER ROBINS the Museum of Aviation, now the second largest museum in the United States Air Force, displays 101 aircraft. For the adventurous visitor, in Waycross there's the Okefenokee Swamp, a National Wildlife Refuge which covers nearly a half million acres.
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