Helen — There’s more to “Alpine” Helen than bratwurst, beer and cuckoo clocks. Base yourselves in the kitschy Bavaria-in-the-Blue Ridge, and your one-tank trip can take you through nearly 200 years of Georgia mountain folk pottery. You can shop for Swedish farmers’ cheese and just-ground grits and cornmeal, hike to waterfalls, picnic by Georgia’s smallest covered bridge, explore one of our premier state parks, and end the day doing the “Chicken Dance” at Oktoberfest.