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Active Climbing

  • 665 Barber St.
  • Athens, GA 30601
  • Phone: 706-354-0038

Come explore and have fun on spectacular boulders up to 20 feet high, with textures and forms that will blow you away, and terrain you'll find at pro comps. Novice and beginners are always welcome, so more >>

Athens Clarke County Leisure Services

  • 705 Sunset Drive
  • Athens, GA 30603
  • Phone: 706-613-3800

Athens boasts an enviable number of public recreation spaces and facilities, administered by Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services. From parks and playgrounds to lakes and skate parks and greenways, more >>

Athens Pirates Summer Baseball

  • 1300 Cedar Shoals Dr.
  • Cedar Sholas High School
  • Athens, GA
  • Phone: 706-225-7871

Get to know tomorrow's Major League players today, as the Athens Pirates and 11 other teams from the Great South League play take the field each June and July for college summer baseball played with more >>

Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall Sports Museum

  • Corner of Lumpkin St. and Pinecrest Dr.
  • Adjacent to UGA track
  • Athens, GA 30602
  • Phone: 706.542.9036
  • Region: UGA Campus

Relive the greatest moments in Georgia sports history, recall favorite UGA athletes, see Herschel Walker's Heisman trophy and other memorabilia, and keep abreast of current happenings in Bulldog more >>

Classic City Rollergirls

  • 280 Commerce Boulevard
  • Athens Arena
  • Bogart, GA 30062
  • Region: Atlanta Hwy/GA Square Mall

Come see Athens' all-female flat track roller derby league in 2012! Two periods of hard-hitting roller derby plus intermission entertainment is fun for the whole family. Roller derby bouts are held at more >>

Georgia Museum of Art

  • 90 Carlton St.
  • Performing and Visual Arts Complex
  • University of Georgia
  • Athens, GA 30602
  • Phone: 706-542-4662
  • Region: UGA Campus

The GMOA's modern and elegant facility houses a permanent collection of more than 9,000 works of art as well as a variety of traveling exhibitions. In January, 2011, the museum reopened with a new more >>

Georgia Museum of Natural History

  • Natural History Building
  • corner of East Campus Rd. and Cedar St.
  • UGA Campus
  • Athens, GA 30601
  • Phone: 706-542-1663
  • Region: UGA Campus

The Discovery Room displays samples from the over six million objects in the Museum's collection, including 1.5 million insects and more than 100 whale skeletons. The Discovery Room, can offer more >>

Memorial Park and Bear Hollow Wildlife Trail

  • 293 Gran Ellen Dr.
  • Athens, GA 30605
  • Phone: 706-613-3616
  • Region: Five Points

Bear Hollow Wildlife Trail is a small zoo that is home to black bears, bobcats, white-tailed deer, river otters, owls, and over 120 species of wild, free-living animals. Birchmore Trail, a mile-long more >>

Sandy Creek Nature Center and ENSAT Center

  • 205 Old Commerce Rd.
  • Athens, GA
  • Phone: 706.613.3615

Featuring 225 acres of woodlands and wetlands, Sandy Creek Nature Center opens the door to outdoor exploration. More than four miles of trails and an ADA Interpretive Trail are available with more >>

Sandy Creek Park

  • 400 Bob Holman Rd.
  • Athens, GA
  • Phone: 706-613-3631

This park surrounds Lake Chapman and features a variety of activies and facilities. Picnic sites, wooded trails, swimming, playgrounds, fishing, tent camping, dog runs, disc golf course, sports area, more >>

Skate a Round USA Family Skate Center

  • 3030 Cherokee Rd.
  • Athens, GA 30605
  • Phone: 706.546.5951
  • Region: East Athens

Where the good times roll! HOURS: Sunday: 1-5 p.m., Family Afternoon Skate; 7 - 10 p.m. 1st Sundays, Adult night Tuesday: 6 - 9 p.m., Family Night Thursday: 6 - 9 p.m., Family Night Friday: 7 p.m. - more >>

Skate Park of Athens

  • 4440 Lexington Rd.
  • Southeast Clarke Park
  • Athens, GA 30601
  • Phone: 706-613-3871
  • Region: East Athens

State-of-the-art facility for skateboards, BMX bikes and in-line skates. This new facility is 14,000 square feet of ramps, edges, rails, steps, and bowls. Helmets and pads are required. Free more >>

State Botanical Garden of Georgia

  • 2450 S. Milledge Ave.
  • Athens, GA 30605
  • Phone: 706-542-1244
  • Region: East Athens

This 313-acre botanical garden on the Middle Oconee River serves as a cultural, educational and recreational facility and is one of Athens' most-visited attractions. Numerous themed display gardens more >>

World of Wonder Community Playground

  • 4440 Lexington Rd.
  • Southeast Clarke Park
  • Athens, GA 30601
  • Phone: 706-613-3871
  • Region: East Athens

Georgia's largest community-built playground is almost two acres of playscapes, mazes, slides, swings, bridges, tunnels, and climbing walls. Plus an enclosed toddler area, gardens and outdoor more >>