5 Notes on Visiting Hamburg State Park

Read the full post at - 5 Notes on Visiting Hamburg State Park For years, I have been trying to book a campsite at Hamburg State Park. Every single time, it has been full. That is a strange thing for a park nobody talks about. Hamburg never shows up on anyone’s list of the best parks in Georgia. It’s not in the North Georgia mountains. It’s not on the coast. It sits in east central Georgia, which is a part of the state most people don’t associate with a vacation at all. And yet it stays booked. So I wanted to know what was going on. In 2016, I started a project to make an extended visit or stay at every Georgia state park, and Hamburg had been a gap in the list for a long time. This past April, on the way back from spring break at the coast, I finally got to stop in and look around. Here’s what I found. 1. The area is genuinely, remarkably quiet The land around Hamburg is developed, but it’s developed as tree farms and cattle pasture — agriculture that doesn’t require a lot of…

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