Here are some Looking for things to do during your stay

• 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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Nature-Based Recreation and Tours

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Coastal B&B Tour

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