History
Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park
Seventeen thousand years of continuous human habitation on the river at the edge of downtown, with earth lodges you can walk into.
Things To Do
The Best of Macon
From Ocmulgee Mounds to the Allman Brothers house, Macon holds more history per block than cities ten times its size.
Music
The Allman Brothers Band Museum at the Big House
The house the band actually lived in on Vineville Avenue, kept as it was. Macon takes its music history seriously and this is why.
Spring
The Cherry Blossom Festival
Macon claims more Yoshino cherry trees than anywhere in the world and proves it every March. The whole city turns pink.
Downtown
The Grand Opera House and Cherry Street
An 1884 theater with one of the largest stages in the South, on a downtown street that has genuinely come back.
Outdoors
Amerson River Park and the Ocmulgee Heritage Trail
180 acres on the river with a trail that runs from downtown out past the mounds.
Music
Otis Redding and the Douglass Theatre
The statue on the riverwalk, the foundation on Cotton Avenue, and the theater where Little Richard and James Brown played.
