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BEST Photo: Steve Kendall

Altama
Cannon’s Point Preserve
Plantation Wildlife The St. Simons Land Trust protects
PLACES More than 3,900 acres of wildlife 644 acres of an old fish camp, dirt
Management Area
roads and trails along a saltwater
management area give access creek and marshes. There is also
TO GO hunting opportunities, trails and a non-motorized boat launch,
a pavilion and learning center,
to the Altamaha River, known as
Georgia’s Amazon, fishing and
and the ruins of a circa-1800s
plantation home.
wildlife viewing locations, and a
OUT restored native garden originally
planted by Cator Woolford,
founder of Equifax, in the 1930s.

SIDE

Sunshine beams on the
coast of Georgia most days
of the year. The invitation
to go outdoors comes from
Photo: Explore Georgia Photo: Explore Georgia
all around the Golden Isles.
Hikers, bikers, and
explorers have scores
of choice spots.
Hofwyl-Broadfield Jekyll Island Trails
Plantation State
Historic Site The miles of multi-use trails
that wind their way around
The golden-brown marshes that Jekyll Island connect hotels,
give the Golden Isles its name are shops and restaurants, and the
on full display along the trails that historic district via primitive
wind through the maritime forest and paved sections. Ride along
from the old plantation home. the beach, veer off into the
Learn about the history of rice woods, and emerge for lunch
cultivation on the property and in at the Beach Village.
Coastal Georgia.

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