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travelbayshore1's avatar
Mar 04, 2014

Atlanta to Chattanooga

Any advice/suggestions on points of interest along or near I-75 between Atlanta and Chattanooga for a July trip?
  • If you go up on hwy 52, you'll go thru Dawsonville. D'ville is center of gold rush days in Ga. If you're interested in that stuff. I was doing an ancestral tour thru there..my G?grandfather settled the area. Very pretty drive and would be easy with a rig.
  • Tellus Science museum in Cartersville. Civil war memorial battlefield in Fort Oglethorpe. Kennesaw has the General steam locomotive used in the Great Locomotive chase in the civil war.
  • We like the Booth Western Museum in Cartersville, GA.

    http://boothmuseum.org/

    Not far off I-75, stay at Red Top Mtn State Park and it's a short drive to Cartersville.

    I'm not sure about R parking at the Museum but I'll check if we go there before July.
  • Enjoy the fact that it is 3 lanes and you will not be bottled up in traffic as trucks (and there will be a lot of them!) are required to stay in the two right lanes.