Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests Travel Guide

The Chattahoochee is the more rugged of the two forests and includes a piece of the legendary Blue Ridge Mountains. Often called "a hiker's paradise," the Chat has more than 430 miles of trails that wander through mountains, wind along rolling hills, and traverse wild rivers. You'll find the highest mountain in the state, numerous waterfalls, hundreds of miles of trout streams, and the base of the Appalachian Trail.
The Oconee lays across the gently rolling Piedmont section of central Georgia. This is family fishing, camping, and hiking. Beautiful Sinclair Lake is a real centerpiece here—a fun spot for a range of water and land activities.
The Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests offer 20 campgrounds with 800 individual campsites, spread from the Tennessee state line to Middle Georgia, and from Alabama to the wild and scenic Chattooga River. Most of them are situated in an appealing natural situation with plenty of recreation adjacent to the campground.
The Chattahoochee National Forest has approximately 1,400 miles of roads open to autos. Approximately half of these miles are groomed for high clearance vehicles. However, there is plenty of road for passenger vehicles, including three designated scenic byways that traverse different areas of the national forest.
The 51-mile Ridge and Valley Scenic Byway, in far northwest Georgia, essentially encircles Johns Mountain. It combines mountain scenery with parallel bucolic flatlands. Since it travels amid much of the national forest, recreation opportunities are never far away, such as picnicking, fishing Johns Creek, hiking the Pinhoti Trail, grabbing a view from atop Johns Mountain, or seeing Keown Falls.

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