Locate It: Macon

A great place for hiking, kayaking, and family fun. Middle Georgia’s only handicap-usable playground, canoe launch, and Porter Pavilion. Amerson Water Works Park is the former site of the Macon Water Works which served the city for over 100 years.

The campgrounds offer permanent charcoal grills and picnic tables for campers. The site can accomodate any size recreational vehicle. The park offers a small swimming beach and children?s playground near the campground.

With all the markings of an exclusive private club, Barrington Hall is open to the public. Five tee positions offer yardages between 5,012 and 7,062 making this an accommodating course for players of all ages and abilities.

Amenities at this park include picnic areas, playground, restrooms, pool, football field, and more!

Bowden Golf Club is an 18-hole course that opened in 1940. Bowden can provide a challenge for players of any ability, with four sets of tees on each hole, ranging in length from 4,940 to 6,626 yards.

The Museum at Capricorn interprets the history and impact of Capricorn Records and Capricorn Sound Studios in the context of Macon’s rich music heritage. More than 1,200 square feet of artifacts, murals and interactive digital kiosks featuring music, video and text bring Capricorn’s story to life.

Home to Macon’s historic Luther Williams Field, the heart of Cherry Blossom Festival events, and the original home of the Georgia State Fair, Carolyn Crayton Park – formerly Central City Park – was Macon’s first public park.

Central City Skatepark offers Skateboarding and In-Line Skating.

Macon’s own musical legend Otis Redding is immortalized as a life-size statue at Gateway Park, on a bank of the Ocmulgee River.

Kids can enjoy a refreshing day in the park, playing on the sculptures or enjoying the impressive views of the city below from the very top of the hill. If there is one reason, however, to visit Coleman Hill Park with children, it would be for the Coleman Hill Slide, a concrete slide that kids can plop down with a piece of cardboard and slide on down to the end. The slide itself is not slick, so bring a piece of cardboard or a sled to help gain speed.

The Capitol Theatre opened its doors for the first time on November 10, 1916. Renovated and reopened in 2006, it has become an entertainment cornerstone and the premier concert venue in middle Georgia.

This park in downtown Macon includes a basketball court and splash pad.

This recreation center has picnic areas, pavilion, tennis courts, playground, restrooms, pool with slide, walking trail, BMX course & more!

Macon Georgia’s One Stop Scuba Shop! Divers Supply is proud to be a PADI 5-Star facility offering a full range of PADI courses from open water diver through instructor development.

Elliott Farms is a family owned and operated farm. We grow strawberries, blackberries, onions, and various other vegetables. We grow the strawberries and blackberries and you pick them!

The park features a splash pad, two basketball courts, a pavilion, a concrete pad, amphitheater, playground and nature trail.

Fort Hawkins was established in 1806 by President Thomas Jefferson and Indian Agent Col. Benjamin Hawkins as an official U.S. Army Fort and Indian Factory for trading and meeting with Native Americans.

The Center offers swimming, free play basketball, summer program activities, after-school program, football, softball, baseball, day camps, swim lessons, volleyball, and rental space available.

The largest park in Macon-Bibb County, Freedom Park is a multipurpose athletic outpost, offering baseball and softball fields, splash pad, playground, lake with fishing, basketball courts, walking trails, even a boxing arena.

The Georgia Sports Hall of Fame is the largest state sports museum in the nation. The hall honors all amateur and professional sports, including baseball, basketball, football, golf and Olympic sports.

We are proud to be Central Georgia’s sole presenter of professional touring Broadway productions and a complementary season of concerts, comedy and arts education programs.

Get the royal treatment at Hay House, known as the ‘Palace of the South.’ The magnificent Italian Renaissance Revival Hay House was featured on A&E’s America’s Castles program.

The Douglass Theatre hosted jazz and blues greats such as Otis Redding, Bessie Smith, James Brown, Ma Rainey and Little Richard. Today, it draws audiences for 35mm 3D, limited run and premier films, and performances.

This quaint shopping and arts district offers a wide range of shopping opportunities from unique gift items, antiques and collectibles to fine arts, garden accessories and potted plants.

The John Drew Smith Tennis Center is a 24 hard-court lighted complex that has hosted numerous tennis tournaments from City championships to professional tour events.

Lake Tobesofkee offers two beautiful campgrounds, beaches, 1,750-acre lake, fishing, boating and playgrounds, disc golf, swimming and picnic pavilions. Operated by Bibb County.

Some of the city’s most resplendent homes are dramatically lit 365 days a year to showcase their unique architectural features on this free self-guided tour. Year round, nightly at dusk.

Built in 1929, Luther Williams Stadium is the second-oldest minor league baseball stadium in the U.S. The original covered grandstand is still in place, with a tin roof replacing the original wooden roof.

The Macon Arts Gallery features the work of over 130 artists: from the highly trained to the self-taught, our eclectic mix of styles and media represent the broad range of talented regional artists.

The Macon Dog Park is a safe, natural environment where dogs and their owners can run and play without leashes.