Name
Image
Date
Location
County
Ownership
Description
Big Hammock Natural Area
1976
31°51′55″N 82°05′11″W / 31.86522°N 82.0864°W / 31.86522; -82.0864 (Big Hammock Natural Area )
Tattnall
state (Dept. of Natural Resources )
Relatively undisturbed broadleaf evergreen hammock forest.
Camp E.F. Boyd Natural Area
1974
Emanuel
private
One of the best representatives of the upland sand ridge ecosystem of the Coastal Plain
Cason J. Calloway Memorial Forest
1972
32°44′59″N 84°56′05″W / 32.7498°N 84.9346°W / 32.7498; -84.9346 (Cason J. Calloway Memorial Forest )
Harris
private
An outstanding example of transitional conditions between eastern deciduous and southern coniferous forest types.
Ebenezer Creek Swamp
1976
32°21′50″N 81°13′53″W / 32.3640°N 81.2313°W / 32.3640; -81.2313 (Ebenezer Creek Swamp )
Effingham
private
The best remaining cypress-gum swamp forest in the Savannah River basin.
Heggie's Rock
1980
33°32′29.8″N 82°15′13.1″W / 33.541611°N 82.253639°W / 33.541611; -82.253639 (Heggie's Rock )
Columbia
county, private (The Nature Conservancy )
The best example in eastern North America of the remarkable endemic flora restricted to granite outcrops.
Lewis Island Tract
1974
31°24′N 81°30′W / 31.4°N 81.5°W / 31.4; -81.5 (Lewis Island Tract )
McIntosh
state (Department of Natural Resources)
One of the most extensive bottomland hardwood swamps in Georgia. website
Marshall Forest
1966
34°15′03″N 85°11′43″W / 34.250898°N 85.195375°W / 34.250898; -85.195375 (Marshall Forest )
Floyd
private
A loblolly pine-shortleaf pine forest believed to have originated following an intense fire at about the time the Cherokee Indians were forcibly removed to Oklahoma.
Okefenokee Swamp
1974
30°37′00″N 82°19′00″W / 30.616667°N 82.316667°W / 30.616667; -82.316667 (Okefenokee Swamp )
Charlton , Clinch , Ware
federal (Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge )
One of the largest and most primitive swamps in the country.
Panola Mountain
1980
33°38′07″N 84°10′13″W / 33.635278°N 84.170278°W / 33.635278; -84.170278 (Panola Mountain )
Rockdale
state (Department of Natural Resources)
The most natural and undisturbed monadnock of exposed granitic rock in the Piedmont biophysiographic province.
Wassaw Island
1967
31°54′01″N 80°58′56″W / 31.9003°N 80.9822°W / 31.9003; -80.9822 (Wassaw Island )
Chatham
federal (Wassaw National Wildlife Refuge)
Only barrier island in Georgia with an undisturbed forest cover.
Wade Tract Preserve
2014
30°45′N 84°00′W / 30.75°N 84°W / 30.75; -84 (Wade Tract Preserve )
Thomas
private
Old growth longleaf pine savanna.