Georgia Veterans Memorial State Park

I GEORGIA VE:TE:RANS
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FACILITIES 1 3o8 Acres
n Tem. Trailer.
RVcampsnes cable TV hookups The Lake Blackshear Resor1and Golf Club (78 lodge rooms, Ioco11ages. conference cemer and res1auran1) 18-Hole Golf Course and Pro Shop SwimmingBeach Manna 1-m1le NatureTrail 4 P1cnIc Shehers zGroup Shelters (sea1100 and so> Pioneer Cam~round R CModel Airplane Flying Field
ACTIVITIES
Golf Boating and Skiing -
pnv111eboa1s permitted Fishing- bass. bream. crappie. ca1hsh
~ , SAM Shonhne Excursion Train
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Esmbhshed as a mcmorJal to U S. ve1erans. 1hls park remures a museum wnh aircraft . armored vehicles. uniforms. weapons, medals and 01her items from 1he Revolu11onary War 1hrough the Gulf War The Lake Blackshear Resort and Golf Club Is a pnvaIely opermed conference cemer wnh 78 lodge rooms. 10 couagcs and a res1auran1 The SAM Shonhne Excursion Train runs 1hrough 1he park on ns way from Cordele 10 Plains. allowing riders 10 see an am,que 1elephone museum, Hab11a1 for Humannys Global Village, Pres,dem Jimmy Caner's boyhood farm and 01her aurawons. An 18-hole golf course and pro shop. along w11h 8.600-acre Lake Blackshear. make 1h1s one of Georgia's mos1popular siate parks
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Georgia Vetera
emorlal State Park

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Located 9 miles west ol 1-75 (ex,t 1101) near Cordele on U.S. Hwy. 280

NEARBY ATTRACTIONS

SAM Short line Excursion Tram Andersonville Nm,onal
H1s1or1c Site Warner Robins Air Museum Providence Canyon
State Conservauon Park

Georgia Rural Telephone Museum
J,mmy Carter Natl Historic Sne Chehaw Wild Animal Park Jefferson Dav,s Memorial
S1a1e Historic S11e

HOURS Park Hours: 7 a.m.-10 p.m Office Hours 8 am -; p.m

INFORMATION

Georg,a Ve.erans Memorial

Georgia State Parks

S1a1e Park

and Hrstortc Sites

2459-A U.S Highway z8o West

2 MLK Jr. Drive. Sulle 13:;i

Cordele. GA 31015 Park u9-z76-2371 Golf u9-1.762m

Atlanta. GA 30334 404-6,;62no

Lake Blackshear Resort i!nd Golf Club 1-800-459-11.30

SAM Shortline Excursion Train 1-8n-4z7-2457

For Reservations: 800-864-7275 or www.gastateparks.org www.golfgeorgia.org www.SamShortline.com

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STATE PARKS & HISTORICSITES