Rec Room Books
Rec Room Books is a bookstore in Clarke County, Georgia which is located on East Broad Street. Rec Room Books is situated nearby to the art gallery The KA Artist Shop, as well as near College Square.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Georgia Theatre and Herty Field.
Georgia Theatre
Music venue
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Georgia Theatre is a live music venue and event space in Athens, Georgia. National and local acts across all genres have performed at the theatre, including rock, folk, country, indie, alternative, hip hop and electronic. Georgia Theatre is situated 880 feet west of Rec Room Books.
Herty Field
Park
Herty Field, also known as Alumni Athletic Field, was the original on-campus playing venue for football, Track and field and baseball at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Herty Field is situated 860 feet southwest of Rec Room Books.
Tree That Owns Itself
Photo: Boston Public Library, Public domain.
The Tree That Owns Itself is a white oak tree that, according to legend, has legal ownership of itself and of all land within eight feet of its base. Also known as the Jackson Oak, the tree is at the corner of South Finley and Dearing Streets in Athens, Georgia, US. Tree That Owns Itself is situated 2,600 feet southwest of Rec Room Books.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Athens and Five Points.
Athens
Athens is a vibrant college town of 127,000 people in the Classic Heartland region of Georgia. Athens is most popular in the late summer and fall when students, families of students or college football fans visit the University of Georgia.
Five Points
Neighborhood
Five Points is a retail corridor and neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, centered on the intersection of Milledge Avenue and Lumpkin Street. It occupies the South-Southwest edge of the University of Georgia campus.
Normaltown
Neighborhood
Normaltown is a neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, by the Athens Regional Medical Center and named for the State Normal School formerly located there. It was the first area of Athens to be wired for electricity after the completion of the Mitchell Bridge hydroelectric plant in 1896. Normaltown is situated 1½ miles west of Rec Room Books.
Rec Room Books
- Type: Bookstore
- Address: 297 1/2 East Broad Street, Athens, GA 30601
- Category: shop
- Location: Clarke County, Georgia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.95808° or 33° 57′ 29″ northLongitude
-83.37449° or 83° 22′ 28″ westInception
January 2026Open location code
865RXJ5G+66OpenStreetMap ID
node 13516907761OpenStreetMap feature
shop=books
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