Enjoy our location
The Colonels on Angel Oaks Farm in Athens
is conveniently located near:
The Rock and Shoals Outcrop Natural Area: "This is a desert in a sea of Piedmont forest."
http://anybodyseenmyfocus.blogspot.com/2011/03/rock-and-shoals-outcrop-natural-area.html
Right Here: There is direct access from the Angel Oaks Farm estate to this adjoining open Department of National Resources (DNR) land.
Granite Outcrop - The Colonels (google.com)
A nice referral:
Colonels B&B: Walk the Rock & Shoals Outcrops Preservation (visitathensga.com)
The State Botanical Garden of Georgia – 6 minutes
University of Georgia (UGA) Visitors Center - 10 minutes
Stegeman Coliseum Athens - 13 minutes
Sanford Stadium Athens - 14 minutes
….downtown Athens, The Classic City:
Convention and Visitors Bureau Athens - 14 minutes www.visitathensga.com/
Ben Epps Airport Athens - 14 minutes www.athensairport.net/
The Classic Center Athens - 14 minutes
UGA Center for Continuing Education - Georgia Center - 15 minutes
…. Close by:
Historic Watkinsville - 13 minutes
Historic Madison – 40 minutes
Lake Oconee - 60 minutes
Lake Russell - 60 minutes
…. Not so far away:
Historic Eatonton - 75 minutes
Georgia International Horse Park - 75 minutes
Lake Lanier - 75 minutes
Stone Mountain (Before Mount Rushmore, there was Stone Mountain) - 85 minutes
(Rock Carvings of Leaders of the Confederacy: Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis)
Atlanta - 90 minutes
Tugaloo State Park and Lake Hartwell - 90 minutes
Tallulah Falls - 90 minutes
Augusta – 2 hrs
Macon – 2 hrs
…. And less than a day’s drive to other great destinations:
Aiken, SC – 2 hrs 30 min
Columbia, SC - 3 hrs
Chickamauga Battlefield, GA and Chattanooga, TN - 3 hrs
Great Smokey Mountain National Park, NC – 3 hrs
Congaree National Park, SC – 3 hrs 45 min
Birmingham, AL – 3 hrs 45 min
Montgomery, AL – 3 hrs 45 min
Okefenooke Swamp Park, GA - 4 hrs
Asheville, NC - 4 hrs
Charleston, SC – 4 hrs 30 min
Savannah, GA - 4 hrs 30 min
Nashville, TN - 5 hrs
Tallahassee, FL - 5 hrs 45 min
Pensacola, FL – 6 hrs 45 min
Mammoth Cave National Park, KY - 7 hrs
Lexington, KY - 7 hrs 15 min
Memphis, TN - 7 hrs 45 min
New Orleans, LA - 8 hrs 30 min
Shenandoah National Park, VA - 8 hrs 30 min