Forbes

Your Winter Guide To Atlanta

As our Forbes Travel Guide editors discovered while venturing across the ATL recently, there are other things going on around town centering on the holidays, good eating and having a great time.

Forbes

Your Winter Guide To Atlanta

As our Forbes Travel Guide editors discovered while venturing across the ATL recently, there are other things going on around town centering on the holidays, good eating and having a great time.

By DeMarco Williams

Though Serenbe has gotten accolades for more than a decade, some Atlantans still don’t realize what they have right in their own backyard — even though the almost-fanciful village of style and sustainability sits a mere 25 miles south of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Part inn, part innovative farming community, Serenbe (pronounced “Se-ren-be”) is the brainchild of Steve Nygren and his wife, Marie. In the early 1990s, the couple bought the Chattahoochee Hills land thinking it would be a great place for family and friends. It certainly was, only the Nygrens didn’t realize how many “friends” they really had.