Jekyll Island, GA — Weather, Tides, Traffic, Gas Prices & Local Events

Jekyll Island is the southernmost of Georgia's Golden Isles and the quiet one — a state-owned barrier island where development is capped, so most of its 5,700 acres stay maritime forest, dune, and marsh. You reach it across the Jekyll Island Causeway off US-17, paying a daily parking fee at the gate. It's known for Driftwood Beach's weathered, sun-bleached trees, the Gilded Age "cottages" of the Jekyll Island Club, the Georgia Sea Turtle Center, and more than twenty miles of bike trails. The tide matters more here than almost anywhere on the coast: Jekyll's beaches swing from wide and walkable at low tide to barely there at high, so timing the water — for Driftwood Beach, fishing, or a paddle through the tidal creeks — is the whole game.

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