Don Carter is Georgia’s newest state park, as well as the first state park on 38,000-acre Lake Lanier. Situated on the north end of the reservoir, the park offers outstanding recreation for water lovers. Guests can stay cool at a large, sand swimming beach with bath house.

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Supported by a local Friends chapter, this park is located on the western shore of 71,100-acre Clarks Hill Lake, one of the largest lakes in the Southeast. With its boat ramps and accessible fishing pier, it is especially popular with anglers and boaters.

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Supported by a local Friends chapter, Etowah Mounds is the most intact Mississippian Culture site in the Southeast.

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Supported by a local Friends chapter, Georgia’s largest state park is a hiker’s and backpacker’s haven. More than 40 miles of trails, including the popular 23-mile Pine Mountain Trail, wind through hardwood and pines, over creeks and past small waterfalls.

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Sitting at the northern end of 45,000-acre Lake Walter F. George (also called Lake Eufaula) this quiet park offers the perfect getaway for those who love water sports. It is adjacent to a natural deep-water marina with an accessible fishing pier, boat slips and boat ramp.

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Supported by a local Friends chapter known as The Garrison at Fort King George, this is the oldest English fort remaining on Georgia's coast. From 1721 until 1736, Fort King George was the southern outpost of the British Empire in North America.

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Supported by a local Friends chapter and ocated south of Savannah on the banks of the Ogeechee River, this scenic park showcases the best-preserved earthwork fortification of the Confederacy. The earthworks were attacked seven times by Union ironclads but did not fall until 1864 -- ending Gen.

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Supported by a local Friends chapter, Fort Morris Historic site transports you into the past. When the Continental Congress convened in 1776, the delegates recognized the importance of a fort to protect their growing seaport from the British.

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Supported by a local Friends chapter, Fort Mountain offers hikers, mountain bikers and horseback riders some of the most beautiful trails in Georgia, winding through hardwood forest and blueberry thickets, crossing streams and circling a pretty lake.

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