Start from 32 curated places around Augusta, GA, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Frog Hollow Tavern
The most serious farm-to-table restaurant on Broad Street, with a seasonal menu that draws from local farms and presents Southern cooking in elevated but unfussy plates. The dining room occupies a historic storefront with exposed brick and dark wood, and the cocktail program barrel-ages its own spirits. It has a deep wine list and draws a mix of date-night couples and food-focused travelers.
Abel Brown
Augusta's best oyster bar and raw bar, tucked into the Surrey Center in Summerville, with a daily-changing selection of cold-water oysters alongside wood-fire cooking and carefully sourced seafood. The vibe is upscale neighborhood restaurant without the formality — wine-forward, regulars at the bar, unhurried service. Southern Living has called it out and it earns that attention.
Trails & outdoors
Augusta Canal National Heritage Area Trail
A 9.4-mile flat path running alongside Augusta's 1845 canal and the Savannah River, passable on foot or bike, from the Enterprise Mill to the Savannah Rapids Pavilion. The route passes through the most intact industrial landscape of the antebellum South still accessible on foot, with locks, headgates, and factory ruins alongside the waterway.
Phinizy Swamp Nature Park
A 1,100-acre riverine swamp and marsh south of downtown with 14 miles of unpaved trails, a boardwalk with a covered bird observation deck, and an Important Bird Area designation. Great egrets, painted buntings, woodpeckers, and great blue herons are regulars; the equalization pond loop is the most rewarding route for birders.
Things to do
Miller Theater
A 1940 Art Moderne cinema that closed for decades and reopened after a multi-million-dollar restoration as Augusta's premier performing arts venue, now home to the Augusta Symphony and host to comedy, jazz, chamber music, and touring acts. The restored interior is one of the finest examples of mid-century theater architecture in the South, with original deco details and genuinely good acoustics.
Imperial Theatre
Augusta's oldest surviving operating theater, opened in 1918 as a vaudeville house and now the city's main venue for Broadway touring productions, musicals, and local theater. The Victorian Renaissance architecture and 840-seat capacity give it a genuine historic grandeur, and the programming covers a broad enough range that it nearly always has something on.
Landmarks & sights
Riverwalk Augusta
A multi-level brick promenade running atop the Savannah River levee from 6th to 13th Streets, with the upper deck for joggers and walkers and the lower deck right at the waterline. On Saturdays from early spring through fall the plaza fills with a farmers and artisan market. The Morris Museum of Art anchors the upper end and the Jessye Norman Amphitheater sits midway.
Morris Museum of Art
The oldest museum in the country dedicated solely to the art and artists of the American South, situated on the Riverwalk in a building with floor-to-ceiling windows over the Savannah River. The permanent collection of more than 6,000 works spans late-18th century portraiture through contemporary Southern expressionism, with particularly deep holdings in Southern Impressionism.