"America's Most Beautiful Wilderness Beach”
Travel Channel 2005

She’s 17.5 miles long and totals 36,415 acres of which 16,850 are marsh, mud flats, and tidal creeks. She’s rich with natural resources like ancient sea turtles, wild turkeys, wild horses, armadillos, sand dunes, maritime forests, and salt marshes. Her historic significance is the subject of numerous books and archeological studies. She is Cumberland Island, the largest of Georgia’s barrier islands, and the one most filled with romance, history, and intrigue.

Cumberland Island National Seashore is an American treasure. When visitors first set foot upon the island (via the Cumberland Queen ferry from St. Marys’ waterfront), there is an immediate sense of awe: that this island, like no other, should be mere minutes from Mainland Georgia. Cumberland Island’s past is a tantalizing story of the Timucuan Indians, the French, the Spanish, pirates, wars, steel magnates, and cotton plantations. Her present is an extraordinary portrait of natural beauty, so much so that the Travel Channel named her “America’s Most Beautiful Wilderness Beach.” Her fame spread internationally when, in 1996, JFK, Jr. wed there in the tiny First African Baptist Church. She is an island of pristine sandy beaches and ancient oak canopies. She is an island of grandeur made richer by the voices of her past that beckon. You will come to her, perhaps, in search of quiet splendor. And you will leave with a mystical sense of wonder that will live in your heart for years to come.

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