Woodbury, Georgia is a town 52 miles away from Atlanta, Georgia, and 30 miles from Fayetteville, with a pre-apocalypse population of 1,102. In the novel, The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor, it is mentioned there are "about sixty" members of the town. The town has a McDonald's, Wal-Mart, and an arena where they held fights for entertainment. The town was first discovered by the main survivors in Issue 27 of the comics after Rick Grimes, Glenn, and Michonne explore a helicopter crash; they follow the footprints and find that the passengers have been taken to Woodbury.