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2 675 ¤£41 ! 20 520 75 Ashburn ! !!3 85 Fitzgerald www.sgrc.us ! ¤£23 Sycamore A 185 475 !Broxton ¨§75 The Ford Farm ¤£441 ! Ocilla ! 16 The Ford Farm is a quiet refuge for nature lovers Ambrose ¤£221 Alma and quail hunters alike. The Farm offers eight hunt- 516 Robert Simpson Nature Trail Okefenokee Little River ! ing courses and lodging as well. 414 Cross Creek Rd, M¤£319 4 Douglas ! ! Visitors to the Robert Simpson Nature Trail can The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge has ! Nicholls Lakeland • 229-560-1791 • www.thefordfarm.com 95 view plant life, natural bogs and experience fishing on 353,981 acres of National Wilderness Area within ref- ¤£129 75 ! Ty Ty !5 Lake Irma. The Nature trail abuts the mountain bike uge boundaries. In addition, the refuge is a Wetland ! Tifton Obediah’s Okefenok 82 trail. N Temple St, Lakeland • 229-482-9755 of International Importance as it is one of the worldís ¤£ Offerman Obediah’s Okefenok is the restored homestead Enigma !!7 !8 www.lakelandchamber.org/parks--trails largest intact freshwater ecosystems. Visitor activities C B!6 ! of Obediah Barber, an early settler of the area. The AlMapaha Patterson ! ! ¤£1 park offers a glimpse into the frontier lifestyle of the include wilderness canoeing, wildlife viewing, hunt- !9 ing, boat tours, fishing, and environmental education. ¤£41 Willacoochee M late 1800’s. (Open Friday - Sunday Only) !Omega ! ¤£84 !10 5115 Swamp Rd, Waycross • 912-287-0090 11 miles SW of Folkston, off Hwy 121/23 M M ! Blackshear M M ! 912-496-7836 • www.fws.gov/refuge/okefenokee Pearson M M www.okefenok.com ¤£82 ! Lenox M !12 13 M M M ! !11 M Dixon Memorial Wildlife Management Area Alapaha River M !Nahunta Nashville ! ! Waycross ¤£82 The Dixon Memorial Wildlife Management M ! !14 Hoboken Area provides hunting and shooting opportunities as ! Sparks ¤£221 M M !15 well as geocaching and wildlife viewing. The state- !16 ! Adel M owned property consists of upland pine forest and !17 !18 cypress-gum wetlands. ! Ray City ! M!21 Argyle ¤£301 5000 Check Station Rd, Waycross • 229.426.5267 !20 !22M !19 ¤£1 M D! Cecil M! ! www.georgiawildlife.com/dixon-memorial-wma M !27 Lakeland Homerville M E ¤£84 ! M !23 !Du Pont F Wildlife Management Area Hahira ¤£441 M ! The Grand Bay Wildlife Management Area ! M Pavo Morven M M !24 encompasses 2,623 acres of state-owned property and ¤£129 M 5,874 acres of land under license from the U.S. Air ! G MM Barwick Force. The area consists of upland pine/hardwood Grassy Pond Homeland ! M Valdosta !25 ! ! M ! forest and cypress/gum wetlands with opportunities Grassy Pond is a daily recreational park oper- H M !26 Folkston M Remerton M for hunting, geocaching, canoeing, hiking, and fish- ated by Moody Air Force Base that is open to the Quitman M M J ing. Knights Academy Rd, Valdosta • 229-426-5267 public. The 500 acre park contains several amenities ¤£84 ! I ¨§75 Alapaha River www.georgiawildlife.com/grand-bay-wma for visitors, including: nature trails, boating, fishing, !28 K ! Dasher Shadow Oak Plantation playgrounds, beach volleyball, and basketball. Withlacochee River M ¤£41 Hunting lodge that serves small and intimate Newell Lodge & Resort 5360 Grassy Pond Rd, Lake Park ¤£221 M Fargo M! M L ! Lake Park groups of avid quail and upland bird enthusiasts on The Newell Lodge & Resort offers guests horse- 229.559.5840 • www.moodyfss.com/grassy-pond !29 M traditional plantation-style quail hunts. For back riding, hay rides, wildlife viewing, and relax- M photography enthusiasts and non-hunting guests, ation. It is centrally located to multiple sites in the Soggy Bottom Mud Park ¤£441 the plantation offers a mini-safari of exotic animals region, including the and coastal Soggy Bottom is a 180 acre outdoor recreation Flat Tub Wildlife Management Area including peacocks, ostrich, emu, zebras, antelope, attractions. Ozzie Rowell Rd, Folkston park with amenities including fishing, swimming, This WMA is open for hunting for deer, turkey, M ankole, Watusi cattle, buffalo, fallow and red deer. 912-496-2838 • www.newelllodgeandresort.com hiking, bicycling, wildlife viewing, and off road rid- squirrel and waterfowl. River fishing and wildlife June Hendley Rd, NE of Nashville Few places in America can offer as varied and ing/racing. 1000 Hwy 121, St. George • 904-786-5503 viewing are also popular activities. 229-686-7454 • www.shadowoakplantation.com extensive wildlife as Okefenokee Swamp Park. Over Charlton Regional Visitor Center www.soggybottommp.com GA 107, North Coffee County • 229-426-5267 200 species of birds have been identified by refuge The Visitor Center is located in the Depot and www.georgiawildlife.com/flat-tub-wma Southern Forest World Environmental Center personnel and visiting ornithologists. There are over informs visitors of the many activities and attractions Museum dedicated to the history of forestry. 40 species of mammals, more than 50 species of rep- within and surrounding the Okefenokee Swamp. Visit www.sgrcmaps.com/WaterTrails !30 N August Ave., Waycross • 912-285-4056 tiles, and 60 species of amphibians. The waters house 3795 Main St, Folkston • 912-496-2536 for a map of boat ramps along www.southernforestworld.com an abundance of fish, 34 different kinds. www.charltoncountyga.us/246/Visitor-Center Mossy Pond Lodge South GA waterways US 1 South, Waycross • 912-283-0583 Provides quail and pheasant hunts, sporting clay www.okeswamp.com shoots and lodging. Mayberry Rd, Patterson General Coffee State Park 912-288-1549 • www.mossypondretrievers.com/ Possum Creek Off Road Park The park is known for agricultural history at mossy-pond-outfitters RV Parks and Campgrounds Heritage Farm, with log cabins, a tobacco barn and Possum Creek Off Road Park caters to ATVís, UTVís, Jeeps, Trucks, etc. They are open the 2nd and other exhibits. Children enjoy feeding the park’s farm Little Satilla Wildlife Management Area 4th weekend of each month. Camping is provided. animals, which usually include goats, sheep, chickens, Composed of 18,920 acres and located only A Paulk Park RV Park 2694 Possum Creek Rd, Ray City • 229-563-3023 229-426-5050 pigs, and donkeys. John Coffee Road, Nicholls an hour away from the Atlantic Ocean, Little Satilla 912-384-7082 • www.gastateparks.org/generalcoffee Wildlife Management Area is known for its diverse B Paradise Lake RV Park Broxton Rocks Preserve Live Oak Plantation Lodge landscapes and excellent hunting opportunities. 229-388-3481 Nature preserve complete with a waterfall, The Live Oak Plantation Lodge is located on Museum of Agriculture Hunting opportunities include deer, turkey, waterfowl caves and rare plant life. The property is owned by the 3,000 acres of managed wildlife habitat. The planta- C Tifton KOA and Historic Village and small game. GA 32, East of Patterson • 912-262- Nature Conservancy, and reservations are required tion offers skeet shooting, hunting, fishing, and golf 229-386-8441 The grounds consist of five areas: a traditional farm 3173 for hiking tours. www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/ to visitors and guests. 675 Plantation Rd, Adel community of the 1870s, an 1890s progressive A 375-acre lake popular with boaters and skiers. D Cecil Bay RV Park how-to-help/places-we-protect/broxton-rocks 800-682-HUNT • www.huntliveoak.com 229-794-1484 farmstead, an industrial sites complex, rural town, Gaskin Forest Education Center Activities include rental bicycles, canoes and kayaks. national peanut complex, and the Museum of Agri- Privately owned conservation reserve nestled on Evergreen Church Rd, off of GA 37, West of Adel E Cain’s Creekside RV Park culture Center. Costumed interpreters explain and nearly five thousand acres of pine trees bordering the 229-896-3551 • www.gastateparks.org/ReedBingham 229-794-9416 demonstrate the lifestyle and activities of this time in 202-mile-long Alapaha River. F Big Mike’s RV Camp Georgia’s history. Whiddon Mill Rd, Tifton Moore Sawmill Rd, Alapaha • 229-339-3966 229-391-5205 • gma.abac.edu 912-487-3661 Gopher Plantation G Valdosta Oaks RV Park The Gopher Plantation offers diverse topogra- 229-247-0494 phy that provides an optimum wildlife habitat. Inten- H River Park RV Park sive management has created an abundance of wild- 229-560-6352 life seldom available to the public. It creates a touch I Griffis Fish Camp of heaven to the hunter after being micromanaged for 912-637-5289 over 35 years. Gopher Ln, Millwood • 912-284-1722 Stephen C. Foster State Park www.gopherplantation.com Stephen C. Foster is a remote park, located J Trader’s Hill Campground Milton “Buddy” Hopkins Nature Preserve 912-496-3412 Bird watchers come to this 1-mile boardwalk Laura Walker State Park within the Okefenokee Swamp ñ a shallow peat-filled loop around a grassy wetland area to see approxi- Moccasin Creek Off Road Park Laura S. Walker State Park is a 626-acre Georgia Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuge bog which encompasses 438,000 acres along the K Pastimes Cabins, RV Park mately 100 different species of birds. Appomattox Rd, Family oriented off road park where you can state park located near Hoboken and the Okefenokee Banks Lake is a shallow blackwater lake con- Georgia/Florida line. The State Park offers visitors 912-496-4472 Fitzgerald • www.fitzgeraldga.org/birdwatching Paradise Public Fishing Area ride your ATVs/UTVs/Golf Carts over 500 acres and Swamp. The park is named after Laura S. Walker, a taining cypress swamp, freshwater marsh, uplands, opportunities to fish, canoe/kayak, star gaze, hike, Sixty lakes totaling 525 acres, provide excellent 8 miles of maintained trails. The park has trails rang- and open water. Fishing, paddling, wildlife viewing, L Lake Park Campground & RV Park Georgia writer, teacher, civic leader, and naturalist. geocache, bike, and view wildlife. Hwy 177 Fargo 229-559-6555 boat and bank fishing. Paradise PFA offers a relaxed ing from just muddy enough to get your tires dirty to GA 177, E of Waycross • 912-287-4900 and boat rentals are available to visitors at the Banks 912-637-5274 • www.gastateparks.org/StephenCFoster setting for families and solitary anglers alike. challenging trails that test your skills. www.gastateparks.org/LauraSWalker Lake NWR. GA Hwy 122, Lakeland • 229-569-0147 M Eagle’s Roost RV Resort Paradise Drive, Enigma Wilton Rd, Blackshear • 912-281-5842 www.fws.gov/refuge/banks_lake 229-559-5192 www.georgiawildlife.com/paradise-pfa www.moccasincreekorp.com/home