Posted on Mar 15, 2015
Road trip to Blue Ridge mountains in Georgia... any advice?
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I plan on escaping from Florida for seventy two hours at the end of the month. So far I've rented a cabin in the blue ridge mountains for two nights. It's a nine hour drive (going the speed limit, not happening) and I have a jeep wrangler, a wife and two kids under ten. For the record, this is the first out of Florida road trip since kids became a factor.
My plan is to drive up I 75, stop in Warner Robbins to check out the air museum, and continue to the cabin.
After the stay, on the return trip, I plan on taking I 20 to fort Gordon, try to get into the signal museum, maybe show the kids my old barracks, visit an old friend or two, then cut to I 16, take that highway that cuts through fort Stewart to hinesville. Finishing with I95 all the way home.
So my question is, is it possible? Can I get a pass to get into Gordon? Is the back highway in ft Stewart still open? Did I miss anything that I should see?
Aside from the nights in the cabin my itinerary isn't set in stone, if something is worth visiting, please let me know. Even if its s peach shaped water tower.
My plan is to drive up I 75, stop in Warner Robbins to check out the air museum, and continue to the cabin.
After the stay, on the return trip, I plan on taking I 20 to fort Gordon, try to get into the signal museum, maybe show the kids my old barracks, visit an old friend or two, then cut to I 16, take that highway that cuts through fort Stewart to hinesville. Finishing with I95 all the way home.
So my question is, is it possible? Can I get a pass to get into Gordon? Is the back highway in ft Stewart still open? Did I miss anything that I should see?
Aside from the nights in the cabin my itinerary isn't set in stone, if something is worth visiting, please let me know. Even if its s peach shaped water tower.
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Wish I’d been around rallypoint those years ago when you asked this question. I can’t speak to Gordon or Stewart, but in the northeast GA mountains area you have Helen, Ga (tourist trap, but it used to be settled by German immigrants, and has a Bavarian theme to the entire city, and decent river tubing), the area around Dillard and Clayton is nice mountain country, in my hometown of Elberton is the Granite Bowl (a high school football stadium built completly out of granite that holds 25000 spectators!), University of Georgia has some nice places, Dahlonega is the site of a pre-California gold rush (“there’s gold in them that hills” was said at and about Dahlonegas mountains), nearby in North Carolina is the Cherokee Indian Reservation.....there’s a few other things here and there should you ever vacation that way again!
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