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Visit the Okefenokee
Swamp!
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Take a swamp tour with
Okefenokee Adventures
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Bike or hike the
Okefenokee upland trails
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Visit the Bolt Visitors
Center in Folkston
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Drive to Stephen C.
Foster State Park in
Fargo for a boat tour
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Visit the “Green”
Suwannee River Visitors
Center in Fargo
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See the Swamp Park at
Waycross
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Join national and
international visitors
at the famous Folkston
Funnel train viewing
platform or at the
Historic Train Depot
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Play a round of golf at
the Folkston Golf Club
or at Laura Walker State
Park in Waycross
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Arrange a marsh kayak
trip with Kayak Amelia
or Up The Creek
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Play tennis at the
county park
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Visit Folkston's Old Cemetery
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Attend the train
festival in April
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Canoe, kayak, fish the
St. Marys River
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Take the ferry to
Cumberland Island
National Seashore & see Greyfield inn
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Tour fabulous mansions
of the Vanderbilts,
Rockefellers, Morgans,
and others at Jekyll
Island’s Historic
District. Stay for a
fish dinner at the
waterfront restaurant
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Rock on the Folkston Houses front porch or read a book in the porch swing.
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Get a copy of Folkston’s
Historic Walking Tour
and take the downtown
tour
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Arrange for skeet
shooting at Okefenokee
Sporting Clays or
participate in a
scheduled tournament
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Attend local Friday
night football games
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Bring your bike and tour
the rolling countryside
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Take a dolphin, birding
and coastal marsh tour
or go birding anywhere
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Have pizza delivered to
the inn and watch a
video
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Take a 2-hour drive to
Savannah for “The Book”
tour
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Get married in a day
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Attend Folkston’s
Okefenokee Festival in
October
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Go fishing on the river
or in the swamp
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Shop, shop, shop -- at
Folkston’s fine clothing
and gift shops
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Get a hair cut at
Gail’s, Glenda’s or one
of Folkston’s other
barber and beauty shops
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See the Clora Lee
Roddenberry quilt
collection and the
Clayton Marcus furniture
gallery at Folkston
Furniture
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Have an ice cream at the
DQ
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Enjoy a dinner
and other Southern
specialties, Dick's Wings,
burgers, chinese
or pizza at Folkston’s
many restaurants
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Drive to Jacksonville
for a Jaguars game, go
to the theater, have
dinner on the St. Johns
River waterfront, visit
the Jacksonville Zoo or a museum,
shop at many close malls
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Visit pre-Civil War
Sardis Church on the
outskirts of town
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Have a romantic dinner
by candlelight at David
& Sarah Rollison’s Pond
View Downtown in
Waycross
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Get cake baking and
decorating supplies at
Chessers Appliance
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Climb St. Simon’s
lighthouse
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Visit historical places:
The Chesser Homestead,
Fort King George, Orange
Hall, Kingsley
Plantation,
Hofwyl-Broadfield
Plantation
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Buy your children or
grandkids new clothes or
toys at Heaven to Seven
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Drive to Amelia Island
for dinner and Sites
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Rent a bike at
Okefenokee Adventures
and tour Swamp Island
Drive
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Drive to Brunswick for
dinner at Chef Alix
Kenagy’s Cargo Portside
Grill
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Shop for Stetson hats or
leather boots at Thrift
Farm & Feed Store
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Visit the YMCA in
nearby Hilliard, or use
Folkston’s backroads for
your exercise routine
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