F.D. Roosevelt State Park

Georgia's largest state park — 9,049 acres along the Pine Mountain Ridge — exists because of a president who couldn't walk without pain and kept coming back anyway. In 1924, Franklin Roosevelt first came to Warm Springs seeking relief from the paralytic illness he'd contracted three years earlier. A decade later, the CCC built much of what you see: the Liberty Bell Pool, the Roosevelt Lodge, Lake Delanor, Lake Franklin. At Dowdell's Knob — the park's highest point at 1,395 feet — Roosevelt used to picnic and bring polio patients with him.