Events Calendar
 Activities
Nature-Based Recreation and Tours
Active Sports
Coastal B&B Tour
Links of Interest
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- Visit the Okefenokee Swamp!
- Take a swamp tour with Okefenokee Adventures
- Bike or hike the Okefenokee upland trails
- Visit the Bolt Visitors Center in Folkston
- Drive to Stephen C. Foster State Park in Fargo for a boat tour
- Visit the “Green” Suwannee River Visitors Center in Fargo
- See the Swamp Park at Waycross
- Join national and international visitors at the famous Folkston
Funnel train viewing platform or at the Historic Train Depot
- Play a round of golf at the Folkston Golf Club or at Laura Walker State Park in Waycross
- Arrange a marsh kayak trip with Kayak Amelia or Up The Creek
- Play tennis at the county park
- Relax in the inn’s hot tub
- Attend the train festival in April
- Canoe, kayak, fish the St. Marys River
- Take the ferry to Cumberland Island National Seashore
- 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 Latitude 31
- Rock on the inn’s front verandah or read a book on the sunny deck
- Get a copy of Folkston’s Historic Walking Tour and take the downtown tour
- Arrange for skeet shooting at Okefenokee Sporting Clays or participate in a scheduled tournament
- Attend local Friday night football games
- Bring your bike and tour the rolling countryside
- Take a dolphin, birding and coastal marsh tour or go birding anywhere
- Have pizza delivered to the inn and watch a video
- Take a 2-hour drive to Savannah for “The Book” tour
- Get married in a day
- Attend Folkston’s Okefenokee Festival in October
- Go fishing on the river or in the swamp
- Shop, shop, shop -- at Folkston’s fine clothing and gift shops
- Get a hair cut at Gail’s, Glenda’s or one of Folkston’s other barber and beauty shops
- See the Clora Lee Roddenberry quilt collection and the Clayton Marcus furniture gallery at Folkston Furniture
- Have an ice cream at the DQ
- Enjoy a catfish dinner and other Southern specialties, BBQ, burgers or wings, seafood, steak, Chinese or pizza at Folkston’s many restaurants
- Drive to Jacksonville for a Jaguars game, go to the theater, have dinner on the St. Johns River waterfront, visit the zoo or a museum, shop at a mall
- Visit pre-Civil War Sardis Church on the outskirts of town
- Have a romantic dinner by candlelight at David & Sarah Rollison’s Pond View Downtown in Waycross
- Get cake baking and decorating supplies at Chessers Appliance
- Climb St. Simon’s lighthouse
- Visit historical places: The Chesser Homestead, Fort King George, Orange Hall, Kingsley Plantation, Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation
- Buy your children or grandkids new clothes or toys at Heaven to Seven
- Drive to Amelia Island for dinner
- Rent a bike at Okefenokee Adventures and tour Swamp Island Drive
- Drive to Brunswick for dinner at Chef Alix Kenagy’s Cargo Portside Grill
- Shop for Stetson hats or leather boots at Thrift Farm & Feed Store
- Hop on the exercise bike on the inn’s front porch, visit the YMCA in nearby Hilliard, or use Folkston’s backroads for your exercise routine
- Enjoy Claudia’s Italian specialties on Thursday night at Main Street Café
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