Long Weekend
3 days · ~260 miles · from Savannah
Georgia's marsh coast at low speed: the smallest church in America, wild horses and driftwood beaches, a millionaires' island club and the tabby ruins of the rice kingdom.
This trip chains: Golden Isles & the First Coast
South through Midway's 1792 church and the tiny Smallest Church in America, then Darien's shrimp docks and the Butler Island rice ruins — book the Sapelo Island ferry if the day allows. Overnight Darien or Brunswick.
St. Simons' tree spirits and lighthouse, then Jekyll Island: the Gilded Age club cottages and the bleached bones of Driftwood Beach at golden hour. Overnight Jekyll or St. Simons.
The wild horses and Carnegie ruins of Cumberland Island by ferry from St. Marys, then across into Florida for a cold one at Fernandina's 1903 Palace Saloon before the run home.