Atlanta
Atlanta is the vanguard of the New South, with the charm and elegance of the Old. It is a city that balances southern traditions with sleek modernism. In Atlanta, the peach trees are plentiful and the tea is sweet, yet this city boasts three skylines and the world’s busiest airport. Atlanta has been burnt to the ground and built back up; it has seen the horrors of war and felt the pain of droughts and floods. Atlanta knows rebirth and endurance though, perhaps better than any other city. Atlanta was host to the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, is the capital of Georgia, and has become the enduring leader of the American South.
Tallulah Gorges State Park
Tallulah Gorge State Park is one of North Georgia’s most popular destinations for outdoor adventure. The gorge, a giant two-mile-long gash in Georgia’s rolling terrain, drops nearly 1000 feet deep over near-vertical walls to the remote canyon floor below. Peer into the gorge’s depths from the rim’s dizzying heights. Catch sight of Tallulah Falls, the gorge’s series of six spectacular rushing waterfalls. Plummet to the canyon floor via a seemingly never-ending series of stairs to cross a swaying suspension bridge that towers 80 feet over the rushing river below. Catch an up-close view of the Hurricane Falls waterfall from an observation deck deep within the gorges
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Shoot The Hooch
In Atlanta, it is a rite of passage to “Shoot the Hooch”, the local term for tubing down the Chattahoochee River. Choose from two ways to float it: either go with a reputable tubing company where you can rent a tube and get shuttled to the ‘put-in’ point, or play it fast and loose, and bring your own tubes, go on your own time, and be prepared for a few mistakes.
Stone Mountain
Stone Mountain is a quartz monzonite dome monadnock. At its summit, the elevation is 514 m above sea level and 251 m above the surrounding area. Stone Mountain is well known for not only its geology, but also the enormous rock relief on its north face, the largest bas-relief in the world. The carving depicts three confederate figures, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, and has been the subject of widespread controversy.
Helen Oktoberfest
Alpine Helen’s Oktoberfest celebrations have been going on for more than 40 years, involving multiple weeks of traditional dancing, food, and, of course, beer from September to October. Held in the city’s riverside Festhalle, the permanent home of the festivities, the celebration is the longest running of its kind in the United States. Revelers dress in traditional attire, lederhosen and dirndls, while dancing to the polka.
Solar Eclipse - Spotted at the border of Georgia and South Carolina
The solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, dubbed the "Great American Eclipse" by the media, was a total solar eclipse visible within a band that spanned the entire contiguous United States, passing from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts.
