It’s a lazy day in late summer. In the South, days are long and the sun sets late into the night, the light is liquid gold and slowly coats the houses and fields. The sound of cicadas is ever-present and greenery is bursting everywhere. What better than to walk in a field of gorgeous yellow sunflowers?
Just an hour away from Atlanta, this massive sunflower field—which is so large that you can see it from the road—waits to be explored!
Temperatures in Georgia are so warm that sunflowers bloom all the way into October. In fact, many sunflowers farms doesn’t even open until September, and this one is no exception. Fausett Farms in Dawsonville usually opens in mid-September and stays open for a few weeks before sunflower season is officially over. The good news is that even if you’re too late for sunflowers in other parts of the country, you can always take a jolly jaunt down to Georgia and go see some massive fields of gold!
Fausett Farms is open every day of the week during sunflower season and the entrance fee is just $5 per person (cash). The entrance fee includes unrestricted entry to the sunflower field for an indefinite period of time, parking, and a few fun photo ops such as tractors and hay bales. You can also buy sunflowers for an additional $2 per stem and jars of natural honey from the actual bees on the farm. They also have horse trails that are open year round, and you can even BYOH (bring your own horse!) to trot on them.
Look how picturesque this endless field is. It’s a great place to just hang out, run around, and of course take some pictures in this extremely Instagrammable spot.
If for some reason you can’t make it to Fausett Farms, here are a few other sunflower field alternatives in Georgia:
- Anderson Sunflower Farm (Cumming, Georgia)
- Like Fausett Farms, is entirely dedicated to sunflowers
- Copper Creek Farm (Calhoun, Georgia)
- also offers corn mazes, haunted houses, field trips, and weddings at other times of the year
- Prospect Farms (Lawrenceville, Georgia)
- also offer daffodil fields, wildflowers, pumpkin patches, and Christmas trees at other times of year. However, you have to pay a rate for a professional photo permit
And even if it’s not quite sunflower season when you visit, Georgia is chock-full of other activities to try! Check out my Instagram guide to the capital city of Atlanta, go pick some apples in the crisp fall air, climb a mountain dotted with pink flowers, or frolick in a pumpkin patch. There are endless interesting things to do in the peach state!
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