List of National Natural Landmarks in Georgia explained

As of 2023, there are eleven National Natural Landmarks in the U.S. state of Georgia.

NameImageDateLocationCountyOwnership Description
31.8652°N -82.0864°Wstate (Dept. of Natural Resources) Relatively undisturbed broadleaf evergreen hammock forest.
privateOne of the best representatives of the upland sand ridge ecosystem of the Coastal Plain
32.7498°N -84.9346°WprivateAn outstanding example of transitional conditions between eastern deciduous and southern coniferous forest types.
32.364°N -81.2313°WprivateThe best remaining cypress-gum swamp forest in the Savannah River basin.
33.5416°N -82.2536°Wcounty, private (The Nature Conservancy) The best example in eastern North America of the remarkable endemic flora restricted to granite outcrops.
31.4°N -81.5°Wstate (Department of Natural Resources) One of the most extensive bottomland hardwood swamps in Georgia. website
34.2509°N -85.1954°WprivateA loblolly pine-shortleaf pine forest believed to have originated following an intense fire at about the time the Cherokee Indians were forcibly removed to Oklahoma.
30.6167°N -82.3167°WCharlton, Clinch, Warefederal (Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge)One of the largest and most primitive swamps in the country.
33.6353°N -84.1703°Wstate (Department of Natural Resources) The most natural and undisturbed monadnock of exposed granitic rock in the Piedmont biophysiographic province.
Wassaw Island31.9003°N -80.9822°Wfederal (Wassaw National Wildlife Refuge) Only barrier island in Georgia with an undisturbed forest cover.
30.75°N -84°WprivateOld growth longleaf pine savanna.

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