Georgia has one certified dark sky place in our directory: one dark sky park, Okefenokee State Park, certified in 2016.
The DarkSky International place types guide (opens in new tab) describes a dark sky park as land with notably dark, star-filled skies that is protected for its scientific, natural, educational, cultural or recreational value.
Check the moon phase before you book. A full moon makes faint objects much harder to see, as Great Basin National Park's stargazing page (opens in new tab) points out. Summer nights show the Milky Way at its densest, and winter brings Orion and the Pleiades (Great Basin National Park (opens in new tab)).
Every listing links to its own page with coordinates, certification details and visiting notes, so you can compare places and plan a route across several nights.
Meteor showers give more reasons to go: Great Basin National Park lists (opens in new tab) the Perseids in August, Orionids in October, Leonids in November and Geminids in December as good chances for shooting stars.
Before you go, see the Georgia dark sky laws for how local lighting rules protect these skies.
Okefenokee State Park (formerly Stephen C. Foster State Park) in Fargo, Georgia, is an International Dark Sky Park, certified in 2016. It has 52 tent, trailer and RV campsites, and gates lock at 10 p.m., so camping or a night program is the way to see the sky. There is no dedicated stargazing area, but the lot across from the Trading Post has open views, and night programs run through the year.
See also the dark sky lighting law for Georgia.