Holcomb Creek Falls & Ammons Creek Falls (3 falls)

7/10/2010 -Hiked the Holcomb Creek Trail to see the 3 falls.  The trail starts at a T-junction of 2 Forest Service roads and goes steeply downhill to Holcomb Creek Falls.  You pass the falls on a bridge across the creek on the way to Ammons Creek Falls.  From the viewing platform for Ammons Creek Falls you backtrack on the trail to a junction where the trail turns uphill.  I almost missed this junction as the day I did this there was a big tree down across the trail right at the junction.  I missed seeing it on the way in, but coming out I saw it as I was climbing over the tree.

From the junction the trail goes pretty steeply, more or less straight up, along Holcomb Creek.  From the sound of it there might actually be several other falls, but if there are you can't see them due to dense rhododendron, mountain laurel, and/or azaleas along the creek bank.  Near the top, about 1/4 mile from the road there is a short side trail to a very pretty, unnamed falls.

When you reach the road, you then have a 1/2 mile hike downhill back to the parking area at the trailhead.

 

http://www.jjanthony.com/waterfalls/falls/holcombcreekfalls.html

http://www.jjanthony.com/waterfalls/falls/ammonscreekfalls.html

 

Directions and Information: from Clayton, GA

• east on Rickman St
• at 5 way junction, bear right on Warwoman Rd
• left on FS 7 (my map program says Hale Ridge Rd)
• follow to end, at T-junction with FS 86, park here
• Holcomb Creek Trail goes downhill here - there is a sign

Note: trail crosses Holcomb Creek on a bridge, at the falls, and continues to viewing platform at Ammons Creek Falls.  To see unnamed falls, backtrack towards Holcomb Creek Falls and a short way from Ammons Creek Falls there is a trail that goes uphill.  The day I was there, a large tree had come down right at this trail junction and I almost missed seeing it.  Trail is rough in a few places, so be careful.