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Unicoi State Park is a great place to stay while visiting Helen Georgia. The upside is that it’s for the most part a resort within itself, and many people will stay here, and never even go into Helen Ga. The downside is that it’s about a ten minute drive to the main part of Helen Georgia, but either way, the advantages and disadvantages wash out, or for the most part makes Unicoi State park a good choice.

There is enough to do within the Unicoi State Park to take up an entire weekend with never leaving. Between the beach area, canoe rental, paddle boat rental, and fishing at the Unicoi Lake, you could keep you and an entire family entertained for the entire weekend.

Unicoi state park also offers easy to more complex hiking trails all beginning at the lodge, and excellent food choices from a breakfast, lunch, and dinner buffet, to local restaurants nearby such as the Tanglewood. Also, the entrance to Anna Ruby Falls is just minute from the Unicoi State Park, and the park offers some of the most excellent picnic and grill areas available anywhere around Helen Georgia.

If you do decide to stay here, trust me when I say drive up to the Anna Ruby Falls parking area (parking is $2.00) which is just a few minutes from the Unicoi Lodge area, and have a grill out or picnic right on a gorgeous mountain river just to the right of the Anna Ruby Falls trail entrance and visitors center.

There are rooms available at the main lodge which are more like hotel rooms, and then there are the three sets of cabins. The three sets of cabins are A, B, and C. Be aware that if you stay in cabin set C, you can wind up with a heck of a uphill walk from your cabin to where you park, so if you are ill health or elderly, you may want to make sure and ask for a cabin close to your parking area, but cabin set C are real wood cabins. Cabin set B has a little less strenuous access, but these are not really cabins at all, they are more like partial circle metal boxes painted green in other words their ugly. Cabin set A to me are the best, they have the cabin look and feel, the walk to and from the parking area is mild, and they are located closest to the Unicoi Lake.

None of the cabins are right on the lake, so if you have a desire to stay where you have decent lake access, you should stay in cabin set A, and this will give you decent lake access. The view of the lake is minimal from any of the cabins except during the fall and winter when all the leaves have fallen off the trees.

Unicoi State Park offers many events such as music entertainment, and nature classes and artist exhibits throughout the year, and there is a number you can call to get the most current schedule of activities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unicoi State Park also offers the Smith Creek Cabins, which is on the parkway going towards Anna Ruby Falls. These are nice cabins as far as access goes because you can essentially pull directly up to the front of your cabin and park. There is trout fishing available directly across the street in the smith creek, but be aware that smith creek right along the cabin area is very narrow, and shallow. the creek is stocked, but given how narrow and shallow the creek is along this section,

I would not count on catching anything of any size out of this section. So if your after some large trout you may have to do some extensive wading to get to some holes deep enough to catch the big ones.

I have found the trout fishing to be much better in the Chattahoochee River running through Helen Georgia, or up in the wildlife management area. But don't let that change your mind about staying here, because the Chattahoochee River is just a few minutes drive from the cabins.

These are decent little cabins, though there are no decks to cook out on as you can see, but each cabin does have access to a picnic table and grill.

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