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Lake Oconee · The outdoor list

Trails, docks, farms, markets.

The boat launch with the deepest channel. The trail to the gorge. The farm stand that takes Venmo. The icon you've heard of and the one you haven't.

Boat launches

2 listed
  • Greensboro
    Linger Longer Marina
    Editor's pick

    A full-service marina on the site of the Reynolds family's original 1930s lake retreat — boat rentals, a mechanic shop, trailer storage, and a gift shop.

    Daily 8am–6pm(706) 467-1194Visit site ↗
  • Greensboro
    Reynolds Landing Marina
    Editor's pick

    The Reynolds Lake Oconee resort community's own marina — indoor and outdoor boat storage, fuel, pontoon rentals, and on-demand launching.

    706.467.1574Visit site ↗

Iconic stops

3 listed
  • Greensboro
    Scull Shoals Historic Site
    Editor's pick

    The ruins of a once-thriving mill village on the Oconee River, dating to 1784 and home to one of Georgia's first paper mills in 1811 — a four-story textile mill once employed over 600 people here before an 1887 flood ended the town. A gentle hike through the Oconee National Forest reaches the mill foundations and an old arched bridge.

  • Greensboro
    Historic Downtown Greensboro
    Editor's pick

    A walkable historic district of antebellum homes, antique shops, and boutiques, anchored by the Old Rock Gaol — Georgia's oldest masonry jail, with 2-foot-thick granite walls and its original 1800s gallows — and the Greene County Courthouse, completed in 1849.

  • Greensboro
    The Ritz-Carlton Reynolds, Lake Oconee
    Editor's pick

    The resort at the center of Reynolds Lake Oconee's luxury development — five restaurants, a spa, and lake frontage, owned by the same Reynolds family whose original hunting cabin now sits under the lake.

    (706) 467-0600Visit site ↗