Peanut Festival
Sylvester, Ga.
229-776-6657
Takes place the third weekend in October.  Activities include one of the largest parades in the Southeast and a beauty pageant with up to 100 contestants.  Craftsmen from all over the state showcase their creations.  Most importantly, you’ll experience peanut treats to delight everyone in the family.  Did you know that every jar of Peter Pan peanut butter is made in Sylvester, GA?

Grits Festival
Warwick, Ga.
The National Grits Festival is held in Warwick, The Grits Capital of the World, in April.  Throughout the day, there is live entertainment, food vendors, craft dealers, animal displays, and plenty of activities for the kids. Other events at the festival included the corn-shelling contest, the Quaker Grits eating contest, and an antique tractor and car show.  There is also the famous and unprecedented “Roll in the Quaker Instant Grits Contest”.  There’s nothing like rolling around in a cattle trough full of cooked Quaker Instant Grits to entertain you!

The “Ole Engine100”
A steam locomotive that ran the rails of the Georgia-Ashburn Sylvester-Camilla Railways from 1930 to 1948 until she was replaced with the next generation- the diesel. In 1957, The Little Engine That Could was donated to the Worth County/ Sylvester Chamber of Commerce and the City of Sylvester by GASC railways for a well deserved rest.  It now sits in Jeffords Park on highway 82 in Sylvester, Ga.

Wildlife Museum
Tyson Steel Buildings
361 Doerun Rd. Doerun, Ga.
776-7588
Open Monday-Friday 8-5, Free to Public. The museum contains animals from around the world displayed in their natural habitat.  A must see.

Lake Blackshear
Warwick, Ga. 
More then 8,700 aquatic acres of boating, water skiing, swimming, fishing, camping and picnicking.

Hunting Plantations
22 quail plantations, 5 open to the public. Most offer horseback riding, skeet shooting, fishing and hiking.

Possum Poke
Poulan, Ga. 
Possum Poke was the hunting retreat of the late Chase Osborn former governor of Michigan.  For more information read “A tale of Possum Poke in Possum Lane” by Stellanova Osborn, The Science Press Printing Co. 1946.

Parks
Sylvester offers a multitude of public parks. They contain an array of amenities from walking and jogging paths to a heated and cooled club house. There are covered pavilions and amphitheaters available and lighted tennis and basketball courts for evening play.  We have tree shaded picnic tables over looking playgrounds and sunny open multi-use fields for team sports. Public fishing in state stocked ponds.