HELEN — Spread out over 5,664 acres of Dukes Creek Valley in North Georgia, Smithgall Woods State Park draws in-the-know travelers who crave forested mountain solitude. It’s much larger than ...

We have a lot of state parks in Georgia (49, to be exact). One is celebrating a special milestone this year: the wonderful Smithgall Woods State Park in Helen, GA is turning 30 years old.

BANKS COUNTY, Ga. — A Banks County K-9 is being credited ... which led the dog to find the woman hiding in a small creek in the woods. The woman was about 200 yards away from the scene.

He describes what is happening now — working with the Muscogee (Creek) Nation to make this a national park — as an important step not just for the tribe, but for modern-day Middle Georgia.