Welcome to Southwest Georgia, the home of Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States! Located in Georgia's Southern Rivers Region, Southwest Georgia includes the sections of the state known as Presidential Pathways and Plantation Trace. Southwest Georgia is filled with antebellum home elegance and small town culture. Here peanut fields and pine forests grace the land of Southern heritage.

Southwest Georgia is rich in famous tourist attractions. Plains Georgia is the most famous attraction, having been made so by former President Jimmy Carter's Presidential Campaign. Windsor Hotel in Americus, Southwest Georgia's luxury hotel, is rich in history and a location of dinner theater.

The Little White House in Warm Springs Georgia is another favorite tourist attraction because of another former US President, Franklin Roosevelt. Both attractions are in the section of Southwest Georgia known as Presidential Pathways.

Swamp Gravy is Georgia's Official Folk Life Play. Each theater season, it attracts visitors to Colquit Georgia from far and near. Colquitt is also the location of the Jokara-Micheaux, a movie and film production studio. The annual Jokara Film Festival is a new festival that showcases Southwest Georgia as a movie and film location. Film and television stars have enjoyed the comfort, charm and hospitality of Colquitt's Tarrer Inn, renown for its Southern cuisine.

Festivals are popular in the Plantation Trace section of Georgia's Southern Rivers Region. Thomasville's Rose Show and Festival and Cordele's Watermelon Festival are two of the most popular. Plantation Trace is also the location of major annual events. The annual Sunbelt Agricultural Expo held in Moultrie is North America's largest agricultural expo. Whigham's Rattlesnake Roundup and Calvary's Mule Day celebration draw thousands of visitors to Southwest Georgia each year.

No discussion about Southwest Georgia would be complete without a word about quail hunting. Among quail hunters, Southwest Georgia is an annual hunting location of choice. The Quail Hunting Capital of the World is located in Southwest Georgia. Want to know more? Click here!