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Leisure & Recreation
Crystal Falls Golf Club members find 770-401-1211 or 706-344-1210, www. • Art in the Garden Festival
that each hole on the par 72, 7,006-yard dawsonvillemoonshinedistillery.com
Crystal Falls mountain course is unique After you leave the Georgia Racing 1923 New Hope Road, Dawsonville, 706-344-
yet playable and forgiving. Generous Hall of Fame, soak up the atmosphere of 8834, www.buckscornmaze.com
419 Bermuda fairways are matched with Gordon Pirkle’s Dawsonville Pool Room. Make a stop by Bradley’s Pumpkin
subtly contoured dominant Bentgrass Order the famous made from scratch Patch and Christmas Tree Farm where
greens. 770-894-4972, www.crystalfallsinfo.com Bully Burgers and fresh-cut fries as you you can pick out a beautiful locally
Big Canoe’s 27-hole championship examine the collection of racing and made quilt at the country store or pick
golf course, designed by Joe Lee, has bootlegging memorabilia on display. up delicious jams & jellies. Your whole
mountain peaks for a backdrop. It winds 78 East First Street, Dawsonville, family can pick out the perfect pumpkin
its way through peaceful valleys, by 706-265-2792, www.dawsonvillepoolroom.net or Christmas tree. Come spring, take your
rushing streams, and soars to the top of To experience a little racing action of pick of a variety of heirloom daylilies. 25
cliffs where you can watch your drive soar your own, check out the road courses at Lawrence Drive, Dawsonville, 770-380-3636,
off mountain tops. 770-893-2733, www. Atlanta Motorsports Park, where you can www.bradleyspumpkinpatch.com
bigcanoe.com drive your own performance vehicle, or
rent supercars, karts and super bikes. 20 • BACK IN THE DAY•
• RACE TO THE FINISH • Duck Thurmond Road, Dawsonville, 404-933-
3436, www.atlantamotorsportspark.net The Dawson County Old Historic
If you’re in Dawson County for any Courthouse, an 1860s architectural
length of time, you’ll quickly find that • FALL FUN • jewel located on the circle in downtown
our history of moonshine running Dawsonville is the oldest working
during Prohibition nearly 100 years ago Fall is the perfect time to go on a courthouse in the state. The Historic Old
grew into today’s NASCAR racing. Stop family adventure in Dawson County. Jail, built in 1881, is just off the circle.
in at the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame Uncle Shuck’s Corn Maze offers a Tour the old jail cells and former living
and Dawsonville History Museum to twist to the time-honored fall trip to the quarters of the county sheriff.
view the first NASCAR racecar driven by pumpkin patch. The Corn Maze is a great The longer you stay in Dawson
Bill Elliott, better known as “Awesome family activity with the Haunted Maze County, the more exciting activities you’ll
Bill from Dawsonville.” Other racing Days, hayrides, evening campfire, and find to do, both outdoors and in. Explore
memorabilia includes moonshine cars, a more. 4520 Highway 53 East, Dawsonville, and enjoy Dawson County.
car once driven by the late Casey Elliott, 888-OSHUCKS, www.uncleshucks.com
Bill’s nephew, Raymond Parks’ car, and Pick a pumpkin and enjoy a hayride, www.destinationdawsonville.org
Gober Sosebee’s 1939 Ford. View the at Burt’s Farm, where the only thing more
Saturday Night Drive-In Theatre film on beautiful than the fall foliage is the sea
site that explores the evolution of stock of thousands of Burt’s orange pumpkins.
car racing. 415 Highway 53 East, Dawsonville, Check the “barn” store for Burt’s fresh
706-216-7223, www.georgiaracinghof.com baked pumpkin pie and pumpkin roll,
Adjacent to the Georgia Racing Hall candied popcorn and other delicious
of Fame is the Dawsonville Moonshine goodies. 5 Burt’s Farm Road, Dawsonville,
Distillery, a legal moonshine distillery 706-265-3701, www.burtsfarm.com
located here in “The Moonshine Capital Bucks Corn Maze is a 12-acre maze
of the World.” Tour the distillery to planted in a 20-acre field next to Cochran
see how the real stuff is made, and Creek. Enjoy beautiful scenery, adventure
sip a free sample if you’re of legal on a hayride, and get lost in the maze.
age. 415 Highway 53 East, Dawsonville,
There is so much to enjoy in Dawson County
that we can’t possibly list it all here. To see it all,
visit www.destinationdawsonville.org, or scan the
QR code with your smart phone to visit the site.
14Dawson County Chamber of Commerce • 706-265-6278 • www.dawson.org
