As of 2023, there are eleven National Natural Landmarks in the U.S. state of Georgia.
Big Hammock Natural Area
Lewis Island Tract
Cason J. Calloway Memorial Forest
Ebenezer Creek Swamp
Wade Tract Preserve
Georgia National Natural Landmarks (clickable map)
| Name | Image | Date | Location | County | Ownership | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big Hammock Natural Area | 1976 | 31°51′55″N 82°05′11″W / 31.86522°N 82.0864°W | Tattnall | state (Dept. of Natural Resources) | Relatively undisturbed broadleaf evergreen hammock forest. | |
| 2 | Camp E.F. Boyd Natural Area | 1974 | Emanuel | private | One of the best representatives of the upland sand ridge ecosystem of the Coastal Plain | ||
| 3 | Cason J. Calloway Memorial Forest | 1972 | 32°44′59″N 84°56′05″W / 32.7498°N 84.9346°W | Harris | private | An outstanding example of transitional conditions between eastern deciduous and southern coniferous forest types. | |
| 4 | Ebenezer Creek Swamp | 1976 | 32°21′50″N 81°13′53″W / 32.3640°N 81.2313°W | Effingham | private | The best remaining cypress-gum swamp forest in the Savannah River basin. | |
| 5 | Heggie's Rock |  |
1980 | 33°32′29.8″N 82°15′13.1″W / 33.541611°N 82.253639°W | Columbia | county, private (The Nature Conservancy) | The best example in eastern North America of the remarkable endemic flora restricted to granite outcrops. |
| 6 | Lewis Island Tract | 1974 | 31°24′N 81°30′W / 31.4°N 81.5°W | McIntosh | state (Department of Natural Resources) | One of the most extensive bottomland hardwood swamps in Georgia. website | |
| 7 | Marshall Forest |  |
1966 | 34°15′03″N 85°11′43″W / 34.250898°N 85.195375°W | Floyd | private | A loblolly pine-shortleaf pine forest believed to have originated following an intense fire at about the time the Cherokee Indians were forcibly removed to Oklahoma. |
| 8 | Okefenokee Swamp |  |
1974 | 30°37′00″N 82°19′00″W / 30.616667°N 82.316667°W | Charlton, Clinch, Ware | federal (Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge) | One of the largest and most primitive swamps in the country. |
| 9 | Panola Mountain |  |
1980 | 33°38′07″N 84°10′13″W / 33.635278°N 84.170278°W | Rockdale | state (Department of Natural Resources) | The most natural and undisturbed monadnock of exposed granitic rock in the Piedmont biophysiographic province. |
| 10 | Wassaw Island | .jpg.webp) |
1967 | 31°54′01″N 80°58′56″W / 31.9003°N 80.9822°W | Chatham | federal (Wassaw National Wildlife Refuge) | Only barrier island in Georgia with an undisturbed forest cover. |
| 11 | Wade Tract Preserve | 2014 | 30°45′N 84°00′W / 30.75°N 84°W | Thomas | private | Old growth longleaf pine savanna. | |
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