Day Trips® from Atlanta: Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler

by Janice McDonald

Overview

Rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip with Day Trips from Atlanta. This guide is packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals and vacationers to do, see, and discover within a two-hour drive of the Atlanta metro area.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493037674
Publisher:	Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date:	04/01/2019
Series:	Day Trips Series
Edition description:	2nd Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Writer, producer, and avid traveler, Janice McDonald has called Atlanta her home for more than two decades. She has written numerous articles on Atlanta and is the person her local friends call when they want something to see or do.

Table of Contents

Introduction xii

Using this guide xiv

Northwest

Day trip 01

Getting on the dixie highway 2

Marietta 2

Kennesaw 7

Day trip 02

The other big "a"s 10

Acworth 10

Lake allatoona 14

Day trip 03

Not italy 18

Rome 18

Cave spring 22

Day trip 04

The indian trail 25

Cartersville 25

Cassville 30

Calhoun 31

Day trip 05

Marked in history 35

Adairsville 35

Resaca 38

Day trip 06

Peacocks & pine trees 40

Dalton 40

Chatsworth 45

Ringgold 47

Day trip 07

Sky views

Lookout mountain

Chickamauga

Cloudland canyon

North

Day trip 01

Milling around

Roswell

Alpharetta

Day trip 02

Wine, wine, wine & gold

Dahlonega

Day trip 03

An edge of blue

Ellijay

Blue ridge

Blairsville

Young harris

Hiawassee

Day trip 04

Helen back

Cleveland

Helen

Sautee nacoochee

Day trip 05

Gorge-ous!

Toccoa

Tallulah falls

Northeast

Day trip 01

Otp 105

Norcross 105

Duluth

Day trip 02

Up by the lake 112

Buford 112

Gainesville 117

Day trip 03

Musical dawgs 121

Athens 121

Day trip 04

Bridges & lakes 128

Hartwell 128

Elberton 132

East

Day trip 01

A stone's throw away 136

Stone mountain park 136

Stone mountain village 141

Day trip 02

Historic heartland 144

Conyers 144

Covington 148

Social circle 150

Day trip 03

Treasure trail 153

Rutledge 153

Madison 156

Greensboro 160

Crawfordville 164

Day trip 04

River city, ga 166

Augusta 166

South

Day trip 01

Trailing miss scarlett 175

Jonesboro 175

Mcdonough 179

Day trip 02

Capital "m"s 183

Monticello 183

Milledgeville 186

Day trip 03

It's the little things 190

Senoia 190

Gay 194

Thomaston 195

Day trip 04

Tomatoes & cherries 199

Juliette 199

Macon 202

Day trip 05

The deep south 208

Andersonville 208

Americus 211

Plains 213

Southwest

Day trip 01

Calling coweta 217

Newnan 217

Moreland 221

Grantville 222

Day trip 02

Almost to bama 224

Hogansville 224

Lagrange 228

West point 231

Day trip 03

Gives you butterflies 233

Callaway gardens 233

Day trip 04

Driving presidential 239

Pine mountain 239

Warm spings 243

Day trip 05

Outpost no more 246

Columbus 246

West

Day trip 01

West is best

Villa rica

Tallapoosa

Carrollton

Day trip 02

Zip-a-dee-doo-dah

Whitesburg

Appendix: festivals & celebrations

Index