Editors' picks across 8categories — the dock with the deepest channel, the winery with the view, the restaurant with the right wine list, the trail nobody's on at sunrise.
A boat-up restaurant at Harbor Club — pull in by water or by car for Southern-style barbecue, burgers, and salads.
Visit ↗The Ritz-Carlton Reynolds' own poolside, boat-up restaurant — pizzas, salads, and grilled dishes, with a dock for guests arriving by water.
Visit ↗Pizza, pasta, and cocktails in the Village Park shopping area of Greensboro.
Visit ↗A family-owned barbecue joint in the heart of Greensboro — slow-smoked plates, cold beer, Monday night specials, and live music the last Friday of every month.
Visit ↗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.
Visit ↗The Reynolds Lake Oconee resort community's own marina — indoor and outdoor boat storage, fuel, pontoon rentals, and on-demand launching.
Visit ↗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.
Visit ↗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.
Visit ↗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.
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