Wasden Waterfowl Retreat, McIntosh, GA 31331

Wasden Waterfowl Retreat

McIntosh County, Georgia · 67.61± Acres · $875,000

A turnkey coastal-Georgia waterfowl property on the Atlantic Flyway

There is a stretch of the Georgia coast where the land is plentiful with oak hammocks, planted pine, freshwater swamp, and hardwood bottom that fold into the great tidal sweep of the Altamaha River Delta. This is the Conservation Coast, and it is one of the richest waterfowl landscapes in the Southeast. Wasden Waterfowl Retreat sits inside it: sixty-seven and a half acres in McIntosh County, gated and quiet, surrounded on every side by more than one hundred thousand acres (100K) of conservation land and protected open space providing a home to over 17 different duck species.

It is a small property by the measure of acres, and an unusually complete one by every measure that matters to a waterfowler. At its heart is a two-acre planted, irrigated, flood-able duck pond — built, not found — fed by new wells and buried irrigation, controlled by a flashboard riser system that harnesses the land's own watersheds. Power has been brought in. A homesite has been cleared on high ground. And the hunt itself has been set quietly into the landscape, down to duck blinds painted and buried so they do not break the line of the marsh.

The property takes its name from George Wasden — the conservationist and lifelong outdoorsman who built it. It is named, plainly and rightly, for the man who shaped it, and a property like this does not come together by accident. It comes from a particular kind of person, working a particular piece of ground with a lifetime of knowledge in his hands. To understand Wasden Waterfowl Retreat, you have to begin with him.

Every property carries the imprint of the hands that kept it. Wasden Waterfowl Retreat carries the imprint of George Wasden — and that is the first thing a buyer should understand about this place.

George is a conservationist by heart, a man with a logger's working knowledge of land and a deep passion for the outdoors. He has taken this ground on the coast of Georgia and, drawing on a lifetime of understanding how land works, shaped it into something rare here: a premier Arkansas-style duck hunt experience, built where the Altamaha Delta already makes the coast of Georgia one of the great waterfowl landscapes in the Southeast.

Wasden Waterfowl Retreat is offered turnkey: the wells drilled, the power run, the pond planted and floodable, the blind built, the homesite cleared and waiting. What a new owner steps into is not a project to start, but a place already loved and already pointed toward its best life — a coastal-Georgia duck property shaped by a man who has done this work, with care, three times before.

It is, in the end, a complete turnkey sportsman's retreat — and a remarkably connected one. The property sits just five minutes from a public boat landing and five miles from access to the Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway, with the whole expanse of the Altamaha River Delta refuge lands close at hand. A new owner can hunt ducks over Wasden Pond at dawn and run the coast by afternoon, with one of the great waterfowl deltas of the Southeast effectively at the end of the driveway.