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Road trips from Atlanta

24 back-roads routes start within a 4.5-hour drive of Atlanta, including 3 day trips and 17 weekend drives; 2 ready-made itineraries begin nearby.

Drive times are estimates to the nearer end of each route (straight-line miles plus a quarter, at 50 mph); the atlas itself never routes you onto an interstate once the drive begins.

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Day trips from Atlanta

• US 41: Dixie Highway & the Atlanta Campaign
  Starts in Atlanta
  Chattanooga → Atlanta · ~120 mi · 1–2 days · skips I-75
• North Georgia Gold & Apples
  About 1 h 30 min to Dahlonega
  Dahlonega → Brasstown Bald · ~130 mi · 1–2 days · skips GA 400 / I-575
• Plains & Andersonville
  About 1 h 55 min to Macon
  Macon → Plains · ~90 mi · 1 days · skips I-75

Weekend road trips from Atlanta

• US 341: The Golden Isles Highway
  About 1 h 15 min to Barnesville
  Barnesville → Brunswick · ~225 mi · 2 days · skips I-75 / I-16
• The Trail of Tears: Georgia to Kentucky
  About 1 h 35 min to New Echota
  New Echota → Hopkinsville · ~350 mi · 3 days · skips I-75 / I-24
• Sherman's March to the Sea
  About 2 h to Milledgeville
  Milledgeville → Savannah · ~185 mi · 2 days · skips I-16
• US 64: The Waterfall Byway
  About 2 h 20 min to Murphy
  Brevard → Murphy · ~120 mi · 2 days · skips I-40 (by 50 miles)
• The Chattahoochee Trace
  About 2 h 25 min to Columbus
  Columbus → Bainbridge · ~180 mi · 2 days · skips I-75 (by 90 miles)
• The Old Federal Road
  About 2 h 25 min to Columbus, GA
  Columbus, GA → Fort Mims · ~230 mi · 2–3 days · skips I-85 / I-65
• SC 11: The Cherokee Foothills
  About 2 h 35 min to Walhalla
  Gaffney → Walhalla · ~115 mi · 1–2 days · skips I-85
• US 41: Dixie Highway, Nashville to Chattanooga
  About 2 h 35 min to Chattanooga
  Nashville → Chattanooga · ~220 mi · 2 days · skips I-24
• Highway 64: Shiloh to Lookout Mountain
  About 2 h 35 min to Chattanooga
  Memphis → Chattanooga · ~340 mi · 2–3 days · skips I-40 / I-24
• The Overhill Country
  About 2 h 35 min to Chattanooga
  Chattanooga → Gatlinburg · ~175 mi · 2 days · skips I-75
• US 127: The Plateau & the Sale
  About 2 h 35 min to Chattanooga
  Chattanooga → Albany, KY · ~160 mi · 2 days · skips I-40
• The Old Ninety Six District
  About 3 h to Abbeville
  Augusta → Abbeville · ~100 mi · 1 days · skips I-20
• The Shoals
  About 3 h 35 min to Huntsville
  Corinth → Huntsville · ~150 mi · 2 days · skips I-22 / I-65
• The Dragon & the Skyway
  About 3 h 35 min to Loop from Gatlinburg
  Loop from Gatlinburg · ~280 mi · 2–3 days · skips I-40 (by 200 miles)
• Hank's Lost Highway
  About 3 h 40 min to Montgomery
  Montgomery → Mobile · ~170 mi · 1 days · skips I-65
• US 11E: The Great Valley Road
  About 3 h 55 min to Knoxville
  Knoxville → Bristol · ~110 mi · 1–2 days · skips I-81 / I-26
• The Black Belt & Gee's Bend
  About 4 h 25 min to Selma
  Tuscaloosa → Selma · ~165 mi · 2 days · skips I-65 (by 70 miles)

Named parkways and scenic byways within reach

• US 64: The Waterfall Byway
  About 2 h 20 min to Murphy
  Brevard → Murphy · ~120 mi · 2 days · skips I-40 (by 50 miles)
• The Chattahoochee Trace
  About 2 h 25 min to Columbus
  Columbus → Bainbridge · ~180 mi · 2 days · skips I-75 (by 90 miles)
• Blue Ridge Parkway & the Smokies
  About 3 h 20 min to Cherokee (+ Smokies spurs)
  Roanoke → Cherokee (+ Smokies spurs) · ~400 mi · 3–5 days · skips I-81 / I-40 / I-26

Longer itineraries starting near Atlanta

• Atlanta to Savannah to Charleston
  4 days · ~420 mi · from Atlanta
  Georgia's antebellum capital to the sea on the route Sherman burned, then up the coast road from Savannah to Charleston through the Lowcountry's…
• Old Florida: Springs, Swamps & the Nature Coast
  7 days · ~780 mi · from Gainesville
  The Florida the postcards forgot: crystal springs and manatees, a sponge-diving Greek town, a Cracker author's homestead, the great lake's muck…

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