the home to the region's only Level 1
Trauma Center and dedicated Children's
Hospital.
We're in the geographic middle
of Georgia with Interstate 75 and
16 bisecting the region. With easy
accessibility to Atlanta's international
airport and the ports of Savannah and
Brunswick, Bibb County has become
popular as a transportation, distribution
and manufacturing hub.
There's another great advantage to our
location. Vacations! Hartsfield-Jackson
Atlanta International Airport is only 80
miles from Macon. The Atlanta airport
serves 151 U.S. destinations and more
than 80 international destinations, which
translate into a huge variety of direct
flights for midstate residents. Beaches?
Georgia's Barrier Islands have a myriad
of towns and resorts for sandy holidays
and travel time is around three hours.
Mountains? The southern-most part of
the beautiful Appalachian mountain
range in north Georgia is within a four-
hour drive. Beach or mountains, or
flights to anywhere - you're good to go.
It's hard to ignore our Southern
summers - they're hot. But that's why
air conditioning was invented. What we
sacrifice in the summer is well worth
the delightful temperatures we enjoy
the rest of the year. We have enough
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climate change to produce brilliant
fall foliage and explosions of spring
blossoms. In fact, spring is so gorgeous
that we have a festival to celebrate.
Macon has more than 300,000 Yoshino
cherry trees to turn the town pink during
the Cherry Blossom Festival.
We have great weather, notable
architecture, quality education and
healthcare, cultural events, recreational
outlets and business opportunities. It's
a place where you can catch a prize-
winning striped bass in the morning and
see a Broadway show at night. You can
run a marathon and then celebrate at a
French restaurant. Or maybe you would
like to sit on the front porch of your
100-year-old Victorian and share a glass
of wine with your neighbors on a mild
October evening.
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