Southern USA Vacation

Usually, the South is defined as including the southeastern and south-central United States. The region is known for its culture and history, having developed its own customs, musical styles, and cuisines, which have distinguished it in some ways from the rest of the United States.
From mountains to beaches, bayous to bustling cities, the Southern USA offers distinctive southern vacation ideas rich in history, cuisine, culture, and music.

So join us for a journey of great southern travel and discovery from swamps to spas, alligators to antebellum mansions. Southern vacations have something for everyone; enjoy the thrill of family theme parks and the culture of our historic villages, go wild at our endless music festivals, and feel the thunder of NASCAR racing. We'll have you looking good with our outlet shopping and feeling good with our nightlife. So stay awhile, grab an ice-cold iced tea and discover your Authentic South.

For many travelers, the most exciting aspect of a visit to the South has to be its music. Fans flock to the homelands of Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, Robert Johnson, Dolly Parton and Otis Redding, heading to the country and blues hot spots of Nashville and Memphis, or seeking out backwoods barn dances in Appalachia and blues juke joints in the Mississippi Delta. The South gave the world rock’n’roll, and its contribution to music in general cannot be overstated. Some of the major destinations include the elegant coastal cities of Charleston and Savannah, college towns Athens and Chapel Hill, and the historic Mississippi River ports of Natchez and Vicksburg. Away from the urban areas, perfumed with delicate magnolia trees, the classic Southern scenery consists of fertile but sunbaked farmlands, with undulating hillsides dotted with wooden shacks and rust-red barns and broken by occasional forests.

​Highlights include the misty Appalachian mountains of Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina; the subtropical beaches and tranquil barrier islands along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of Georgia and South Carolina; and the river road through the tiny, time-warped settlements of the flat Mississippi Delta.  The Blue Ridge Parkway, the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the Ozarks and the Mississippi Delta are but a few of the places to see. In any case, it’s best to take things at your own pace – you’ll find things to see and do in the most unlikely places.