Georgia Veterans State Park

Georgia Vererans State Park is a state park located on Lake Blackshear in Crisp County, west of Cordele, Georgia. It was established in 1931 as a memorial to U.S. Veterans. The 1,308-acre (5 km²) park features a museum with aircraft, vehicles, weapons, uniforms and other memorabilia dating from the Revolutionary War to the present.

Other attractions include 8,600-acre (35 km²) Lake Blackshear, a privately operated conference center and golf club and the SAM Shortline Excursion Train, which runs from Cordele to Plains.

Facilities

77 campsites with cable TV hookups for tents, trailers or RVs
Pioneer campground
18-hole golf course
Lake Blackshear Resort
- Conference Center
- Beach
- Marina
- Cypress Grill & The Comedy Zone
- 78 rooms
- 10 cottages
One-mile (1.6 km) nature trail
Four picnic shelters
Group shelter that seats 150
R/C model airplane flying field

Activities

Boating
Waterskiing
Pontoon Boat Rentals
Ski Boat Rentals
Sea Doo Rentals
Bike Rentals
Fishing
Birdwatching
Disc Golf
Veteran's Museum
Sam Shortline Train

Lake Blackshear boasts bass, crappie, catfish and bream. Visitors are welcome to bring private watercraft.

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Protected areas of Georgia

Federal

National historic sites and military parks	Andersonville NHS • Jimmy Carter NHS • Martin Luther King, Jr. NHS • Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park • Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park

National monuments	Fort Frederica • Fort Pulaski • Ocmulgee

National forests	Chattahoochee • Oconee

National wildlife refuges	Banks Lake • Blackbeard Island • Bond Swamp • Eufaula • Harris Neck • Okefenokee • Piedmont • Savannah • Wassaw • Wolf Island

Wilderness Areas	Big Frog Wilderness • Blood Mountain Wilderness • Brasstown Wilderness • Cohutta Wilderness • Cumberland Island National Seashore • Ellicott Rock Wilderness • Mark Trail Wilderness • Okefenokee Wilderness • Raven Cliffs Wilderness • Rich Mountain Wilderness • Southern Nantahala Wilderness • Tray Mountain Wilderness •

Wild and Scenic Rivers	Chattooga River

National Trails	Appalachian Trail • Pinhoti National Recreation Trail

Other protected areas	Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area • Cumberland Island National Seashore • Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary • Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve

State

Parks	Amicalola Falls • Black Rock Mountain • Bobby Brown • Buck Shoals • Chattahoochee Bend • Cloudland Canyon • Crooked River • Don Carter • Elijah Clark • F.D. Roosevelt • Florence Marina • Fort Mountain • Fort Yargo • General Coffee • George L. Smith • George T. Bagby • Georgia Veterans • Gordonia-Alatamaha • Hamburg • Hard Labor Creek • Hart • High Falls • Indian Springs • James H. "Sloppy" Floyd • John Tanner • Laura S. Walker • Little Ocmulgee • Magnolia Springs • Mistletoe • Moccasin Creek • Panola Mountain • Providence Canyon • Red Top Mountain • Reed Bingham • Richard B. Russell • Sapelo Island • Seminole • Skidaway Island • Smithgall Woods • Sprewell Bluff • Standing Boy Creek • Stephen C. Foster • Sweetwater Creek • Tallulah Gorge • Tugaloo • Unicoi • Victoria Bryant • Vogel • Watson Mill Bridge

Historic parks and sites	A.H. Stephens • Chief Vann House • Dahlonega Gold Museum • Etowah Indian Mounds • Fort McAllister • Fort King George • Fort Morris • Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation • Jarrell Plantation • Jefferson Davis Memorial • Kolomoki Mounds • Lapham-Patterson House • Little White House • New Echota • Pickett's Mill Battlefield • Robert Toombs House • Travelers Rest • Wormsloe

Forests	Baldwin • Bartram • Brender-Hitchiti • Dixon Memorial • Dawson • Hightower • Paulding • Spirit Creek

Other	Centennial Olympic Park • Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center • Jekyll Island • Lake Lanier Islands • Okefenokee Swamp • Radium Springs • Sapelo Island • Stone Mountain Park

County,
Municipal
and Other

Parks	Cobb County Parks • McIntosh Reserve • Murphey Candler Park • Okefenokee Swamp Park • Robert G. Hunter Memorial Park • Seaborn Jones Memorial Park • Shaking Rock Park · The Parks at Chehaw

Forests & Nature Preserves	Autrey Mill Nature Preserve & Heritage Center • Fernbank Forest • Marshall Forest • Morningside Nature Preserve • Reynolds Nature Preserve

Nature & Environmental Education Centers	Chattahoochee Nature Center • Savannah-Ogeechee Canal Museum & Nature Center

Georgia Department of Natural Resources • Georgia Forestry Commission (web)