15 Best Things to Do in Gainesville (GA)

Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Gainesville

Gainesville lies in northern Georgia’s Hall County, roughly 55 miles northeast of Atlanta. The ‘poultry capital of the world’ was founded by European-American settlers in the early 1800s as a mule camp, and has been known as Gainesville since 1821. It is named after a general in the War of 1812 against Great Britain. Gainesville …

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15 Best Things to Do in Downtown Gainesville

Loblolly Woods Nature Park

Downtown Gainesville looks like a sleepy country town where there’s not much going on. Start exploring, and the opposite soon becomes apparent. Gainesville is the county seat of Alachua in Florida, and the Downtown district is a hdive of exciting things to do. Downtown Gainesville’s historic character and charm are accentuated by an abundance of …

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