Allatoona Lake's eight Corps of Engineers campgrounds are 30 miles from Atlanta, near the cities of Acworth and Canton. All campgrounds are handicapped accessible.
The RV sites have water and 50-amp hookups, showers, grills and picnic tables, and there is a dump station and restroom facility. The Corps of Engineers recently added geocaching, a treasure hunting game played with global positioning system devices.
The Corps of Engineers operates seven campgrounds with 430 RV sites at Lake Sidney Lanier, near Gainesville, Ga. RV sites have water and electric hookups and are lakeside. Sites feature picnic tables, grills and a lantern pole. Showers, playgrounds, dump stations and handicapped-accessible sites are available.
Nestled among the Blue Ridge Mountains 70 miles north of Atlanta is Carter's Lake, where the Corps operates two campgrounds. All RV slots have full hookups, picnic tables and grills. The facility has a dump station, playground, laundry facility and boat launch.
Georgia Power Company owns 15 lake areas around the state, including two in the Northeast Lakes region.
Lake Burton has full-hookup RV sites, a dump station, picnic tables, grills, showers and a playground. Boating, fishing, hiking and biking are popular activities for campers.
Terrora Campground at Tallulah Falls has a year-round campground with the same amenities as Lake Burton, plus tennis courts and a pavilion. The campground is located close to Tallulah Gorge, where campers can try crossing a swinging bridge, go whitewater rafting during water releases from the dam or hike down into the gorge itself.
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources operates dozens of state parks in north Georgia, with hundreds of RV camp sites.
Among the most popular are parks at Amicalola Falls in Dawsonville and Tallulah Gorge in Tallullah Falls, with spectacular views of rushing waters and waterfalls. RV sites all have full hookups and many are pull-through. Other amenities include bath houses, picnic tables and grills, dump stations and laundry facilities.
One of the most unusual and hair-raising adventures available to RVers in north Georgia is the Tree Flight Canopy zipline at Banning Mills Campground in Whitesburg, Ga., 45 miles from Atlanta.
Participants wearing a harness and safety equipment link up via pulley to an overhead cable and zip hundreds of feet along the cable, over the tops of the tree canopy, to a landing spot in the distant woods.
High- and low-ropes courses are available for trust-building. Users attached to harnesses move around on a large system of ropes and cables strung up to 50 feet high.
Hiking, rafting, horseback riding, skeet shooting and biking are also available.
The campground has fully equipped RV spots with water, electricity and sewer hookups, and pets are welcome.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service operates a campground in the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests. Hike and bike in the mountains or take a fall foliage tour. Campers can enjoy boating, fishing, historic sites, hunting, picnicking and off-road vehicle trails.
