State guide

Georgia Nature Guide

Georgia stretches from the southern tip of the Blue Ridge Mountains — crowned by Brasstown Bald at 4,784 feet — across the red-clay Piedmont of Atlanta and on to the vast Coastal Plain, the longleaf-pine and wiregrass flatwoods, the great Okefenokee Swamp, and the salt marshes and barrier islands of the coast. That range packs in some of the Southeast's signature wildlife: endangered Red-cockaded Woodpeckers in the Coastal Plain longleaf-pine savannas of Fort Stewart and the Red Hills, Wood Storks and Swallow-tailed Kites over the southern swamps, brilliant Painted Buntings on the coast at Jekyll and Cumberland Islands, and wintering sparrows and waterfowl across the state. From USDA zone 6b in the mountains to 9a on the coast, the climate is humid subtropical, with hot wet summers and mild winters that keep the year green.