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Vino, Vidi, Vici: Toast Along the Georgia Wine Highway at these Helen Wineries
You’re dreaming of a vino-centric getaway, but don’t want to hop the pond to Europe. Actually, you don’t even want to hop across the country

Alpine-Helen, GA: Where the South Goes to Have Winter
Where does the South go to find the warmth of winter’s most time-honored traditions? In this part of the country, a region that’s notorious for

Helen’s 50th Oktoberfest: Beer Brings Us Back Together
When you have good bier and a tight knit community (from all over), festivals just invent themselves. That’s what happened with Oktoberfest in 1810. Can

Familiar Sports, Faraway Feeling: A Guys’ Weekend in Helen, GA to Enjoy Fall
Sometimes you want to do the same things somewhere new. A relaxing experience relies on some predictability, but also adds intrigue—mountains, river, special food. .

Tour Georgia’s Wine Country in a Weekend
You can drink wine anywhere, yet one of the most popular escapes connoisseurs and novices alike seek is a trip to “wine country.” Perhaps it’s

Who Wrote Your Favorite Songs? Find Out at the Alpine Helen Songwriters Festival
You’ve got shady oak trees; cool mountain breezes; gently rolling streams giving way to waterfalls; gazing at the stars in the clear spring sky over