Athens is a college town with a personality. The University of Georgia dominates the city -- 40,000+ students in a metro area of about 130,000 people. Downtown Athens is the live music scene. North Campus is the historic quad with its iron arch. And every spring, when finals end and leases turn over, the city enters a brief, chaotic period where thousands of students try to move out simultaneously. Fraternity and sorority houses along Milledge Avenue empty out. The high-rises on Baxter Street clear. Dorms across campus hit their move-out deadlines. And Athens -- a city built around the university in every sense -- doesn't have the infrastructure to absorb all that activity at once.

Storage Scholars takes the chaos out of move-out. We pick up your belongings directly from your dorm room or off-campus apartment, store everything in a climate-controlled facility designed for Georgia's brutal summers, and deliver it when you return to campus in the fall. No renting a truck in a town where every available vehicle is already reserved by Greek organizations. No hauling boxes through the downtown one-way streets. No leaving your stuff in a non-air-conditioned apartment while Athens bakes at 95 degrees with 80% humidity for three straight months.

Georgia summers are serious. Athens averages highs in the low to mid-90s from June through August, with humidity that pushes the heat index well past 100 degrees. This isn't mild Southern warmth -- it's the kind of sustained heat and moisture that grows mold on leather, warps wooden furniture, damages electronics, and turns a closed storage unit into a sauna. A non-climate-controlled unit in Athens during July can reach internal temperatures of 120 degrees or higher.

Storage Scholars provides fully climate-controlled storage that keeps your belongings at a stable temperature and humidity all summer. Our team coordinates with UGA's housing calendar, arrives at your room with packing supplies, and handles the entire move to our facility. Your stuff stays cool and dry while Athens endures another Georgia summer.

UGA draws students from across Georgia and beyond -- particularly from the Atlanta metro area (about 70 miles west on Highway 316) and surrounding Southern states. If you're moving to Athens from out of state or prefer not to drive with a loaded car, our ship-to-school service lets you box up your belongings at home and ship them ahead. We receive your packages at our Athens facility and deliver directly to your dorm room on move-in day. Drive or fly into Athens-Ben Epps Airport without worrying about fitting everything in your vehicle.

Moving within Athens means navigating the university's sprawling campus, the downtown one-way street grid, and the network of apartment complexes and houses that spread outward from campus along Milledge Avenue, Baxter Street, and Lumpkin Street. Greek houses on Milledge have their own loading challenges -- narrow driveways, limited turnaround space. Downtown apartments sit above restaurants and shops with tight stairwells. Off-campus complexes along the Athens Loop have their own parking and access rules. We handle the logistics of all of it.