If you’ve never heard of Peaches to the Beaches, picture this: a single yard sale that stretches roughly 200 miles down the length of Georgia, running from the peach orchards near Barnesville all the way to the coast at Brunswick and Jekyll Island. It’s become one of the South’s biggest annual treasure-hunting traditions, and if you love flea markets, it deserves a spot on your calendar.
What Exactly Is Peaches to the Beaches?
Peaches to the Beaches is an annual community yard sale event that follows Georgia Highway 341 through eleven counties, connecting small towns from the middle of the state down to the Golden Isles. Rather than one central location, it’s really a chain of individual and group vendor sites — some run by local chambers of commerce, some by churches or civic groups, some just by families setting up in their own yards — all happening along the same route on the same weekend.
Vendors sell a mix of antiques, locally made crafts, home-cooked and homemade food, and classic yard-sale fare — furniture, tools, clothing, toys, collectibles, and the kind of one-of-a-kind finds that make flea market hunting fun in the first place.
The Route
The event runs along Hwy 341 through these counties and towns:
- Lamar County — Barnesville
- Crawford County — Roberta
- Peach County — Fort Valley
- Houston County — Perry
- Pulaski County — Hawkinsville
- Dodge County — Chauncey & Eastman
- Telfair County — McRae-Helena & Lumber City
- Jeff Davis County — Hazlehurst
- Appling County — Baxley
- Wayne County — Jesup & Odum
- Glynn County — Brunswick (with sites extending toward Jekyll Island)
That’s the “peaches to the beaches” in the name — you start in Georgia’s peach country and end up on the coast.
When Is It?
Peaches to the Beaches happens every year on the second Friday and Saturday in March, with most official sites running from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM both days.
Because it’s tied to a specific weekend rather than a fixed date, it’s worth checking the exact dates each year as the event approaches — the organizers typically confirm them a few months out. The “second weekend of March” rule of thumb is a safe bet for planning ahead in the meantime.
How to Tell an Official Site From a Random Yard Sale
Because this event spans so many independent towns and vendors, the organizers use official site banners and vendor yard signs to mark the sanctioned locations along the route. If you’re driving the highway looking for places to stop, these signs are your best signal that you’ve found a real event site rather than an unrelated sale that happens to be going on the same weekend.
How to Prepare
Plan for a road trip, not a single stop. This isn’t a market you “do” in an afternoon — it’s 200 miles of vendors. Most people pick a stretch of the route rather than trying to cover the whole thing in one weekend, especially since it runs Friday and Saturday.
Bring cash, and bring more than you think you need. Small-town and individual vendors along a route like this are far less likely to take cards reliably than a permanent indoor market. ATMs can be sparse in some of the smaller towns on the route.
Start early. With 8 AM start times and two full days of vendors, the best finds — especially furniture and genuine antiques — tend to go fast. Early birds get first pick.
Bring a vehicle with real cargo space. This is a furniture-and-large-item kind of event for a lot of shoppers. An SUV, truck, or at least a folded-down back seat will save you from having to pass on a great find because you can’t get it home.
Check the weather and dress for walking. March in Georgia can swing from cool mornings to warm afternoons, and you’ll be on your feet across gravel lots, grass, and pavement all day.
Have a rough route plan, but stay flexible. Decide which stretch of counties you want to focus on ahead of time, but leave room to pull off when you spot a promising site — that’s half the fun of an event like this.
Why It’s Worth the Drive
Peaches to the Beaches captures something a lot of single-location flea markets can’t: the feeling of a genuine road trip treasure hunt, where every few miles brings a new town, a new set of vendors, and a new chance at a find you won’t see anywhere else. If you’re anywhere within driving distance of Georgia in March, it’s one of the best flea-market road trips in the country.
Looking for flea and antique markets closer to home the rest of the year? Browse listings by state on National Flea Guide.