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The WWII Flight Training Base and Arts & Culture
Museum is home of the 63rd Army Air
Forces Flying Training Detachment, listed
in the National Register of Historic Places.
This pilot school was established to meet Behind Tip Top Deli is a quaint commercial village
the demand for thousands of pilots during designed for start-up businesses. Pay a visit to The
World War II. Of the 55 civilian primary flight Shoppes at Tip Top, where you’ll be treated by NOLA
training centers in the nation, the Douglas Salon, Bling It On, and others.
base is the most intact, with many of its 107 W. Bryan St. | Douglas, GA 31533
original buildings, field, and hangars as they 912-592-8582 | FB: @theshoppesattiptop
looked in the early 1940s. The museum in the
Instructors Barracks houses exhibits on the
63rd’s training, aircraft, and equipment with
WWII memorabilia and history.
3 Airport Circle
Douglas, GA 31535
912-383-9111 | wwiiflighttraining.org

Beyond the city and into the wilderness,
three nearby hunting lodges offer guided
or self-guided hunting excursions for quail,
deer, and turkey. Hunting licenses must first
be secured, and each website details the
seasons, acreage, and accommodations for
families or larger parties.
Gopher Plantation in Millwood, GA:
912-381-1482 | gopherplantation.com
Tussock Bay in Axon, GA:
912-383-6635 | tussockbay.com
Branhill Plantation in Denton, GA:
912-389-8970 | branhillplantation.com The Main Street Market at
An other-worldly micro-habitat in Downtown Douglas First Fridays The Gazebo in Central Square
Georgia’s coastal plain holds a roaring Downtown is the place to be when shops features the best of South
waterfall rushing over massive boulders, and restaurants extend their hours. The Georgia’s handcrafted, locally
cave-like crevices, and 30-foot-high cliffs. streets are alive with First Friday patrons made items for home, beauty
Broxton Rocks Preserve is an eroding enjoying drinks, foods, and live music. and for meaningful gifts. First
sandstone outcrop with blackwater streams Saturday of the month – March to
along Rocky Creek, longleaf pine-wiregrass December – from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
woodlands, and pitcherplant seepage bogs. 200 Madison Ave. S.
It’s a cool and moist place in an otherwise Douglas, GA 31533
desert-like climate on the flat rocks above 912-384-1873 | douglasga.org
fissures. There is a one-mile hike from the
trailhead, open dawn until dusk. More than
500 rare and endangered plants and several
rare reptiles thrive here, so visitation is
managed to preserve this special place.
Contact The Nature Conservancy to
arrange a tour:
404-873-6946 | nature.org/en-us/get-involved/
how-to-help/places-we-protect/broxton-rocks/

Broxton Rocks Preserve

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