List of National Natural Landmarks in Georgia
There are ten National Natural Landmarks in the U.S. state of Georgia.
Name | Image | Date | Location | County | Description | |
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1 | Big Hammock Natural Area | 1976 | Tattnall | Relatively undisturbed broadleaf evergreen hammock forest. | ||
2 | Camp E.F. Boyd Natural Area | 1974 | Emanuel | One of the best representatives of the upland sand ridge ecosystem of the Coastal Plain | ||
3 | Cason J. Calloway Memorial Forest | 1972 | Harris | An outstanding example of transitional conditions between eastern deciduous and southern coniferous forest types. | ||
4 | Ebenezer Creek Swamp | 1976 | Effingham | The best remaining cypress-gum swamp forest in the Savannah River basin. | ||
5 | Heggie's Rock | 1980 | Columbia | The best example in eastern North America of the remarkable endemic flora restricted to granite outcrops. | ||
6 | Lewis Island Tract | 1974 | McIntosh | One of the most extensive bottomland hardwood swamps in Georgia. | ||
7 | Marshall Forest | ![]() |
1966 | Rome34°15′03″N 85°11′43″W / 34.250898°N 85.195375°W | Floyd | A 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. |
8 | Okefenokee Swamp | ![]() |
1974 | Charlton, Clinch, Ware | One of the largest and most primitive swamps in the country. | |
9 | Panola Mountain | |
1980 | Rockdale | The most natural and undisturbed monadnock of exposed granitic rock in the Piedmont biophysiograpic province. | |
10 | Wassaw Island | 1967 | Chatham | Only island of the Golden Isles with an undisturbed forest cover. | ||