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Home » Blog » Free Fun Things to do with Kids in the US » Free in Georgia » 4 FREE Things to Do in Albany, Ga.

4 FREE Things to Do in Albany, Ga.

April 14, 2009 //  by Cindy Richards, Empty Nest TravelingMom//  4 Comments

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With outdoor adventure, a Civil Rights legacy and Southern history encompassing plantations, African-Americans and Native Americans combined with its location on the Flint River, Albany in southwest Georgia is “where history and nature flow.”

Here are four free and family friendly things to do in Albany on your next family vacation.

1. RiverFront Park is a 6-acre park located in downtown Albany along the Flint River. Amenities include a great lawn area for family picnics and gatherings, music and light animated play fountain, pavilion areas, Turtle Grove Play Park, a 1.5 mile Greenways Trail System, Horace King Overlook, the historic Bridge House and the Riverwalk.

2. Turtle Grove Play Park> www.albanygacvb.com is the community built park that features a safe and secure play area for children ages 1-14. The play park includes seven basic areas: Dino Dig, Tot Lot, Big Kid Area, Critters Area, Mosaic-Tile Area, Rock Climbing Wall,
Musical Instruments and other static climbing features.

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3. Ray Charles Plaza> Albany is the birthplace of Ray Charles. He is memorialized in this downtown park with benches in the design of piano keys that plays his music and features a life size bronze sculpture of Ray sitting at his piano.

4. Albany Welcome Center opened in August 2008 in the historic Bridge House. Stop by to learn about things to do in Albany and the region, pick up some souvenirs and watch the film “From the Heart of Southwest Georgia.”


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Cindy Richards, Empty Nest TravelingMom

About Cindy Richards, Empty Nest TravelingMom

Cindy Richards is a Pulitzer Prize nominated journalist who serves as the Editor-in-Chief of TravelingMom.com and TravelingDad.com. She also is the mom of two now grown kids who have traveled with her since that first, fateful plane ride when one preschooler discovered a barf bag in his seat pocket and his sister, finding none in hers, demanded, "I want a barf bag too!" She has been a reporter, editor and columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune, an editor at Chicago Parent and Catalyst Chicago and an instructor in the graduate school at Northwestern's prestigious Medill School of Journalism.

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  1. Jenn

    May 14, 2013 at 9:48 am

    Its not free but you forgot to mention chewhaw park. And the putt putt golf.

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  2. Linda

    May 14, 2013 at 2:20 pm

    Thanks for the information..I have busy 4 year old..

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  3. Jenn

    May 16, 2013 at 12:31 pm

    There is a lot more things to offer from when I was a kid. My grandma used to take us to chewhaw park and putt putt golfing. That’s awesome they r adding things to albany to make it special.

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