What this is all about

I like to hike, and I belong to a womens hiking group called "TrailDames" - one of our hikes took us to a waterfall just over the border in South Carolina. This got me interested in finding waterfalls nearby and earlier this year I found a website with directions and photos of waterfalls in North Georgia at (see links for TrailDames & North Georgia Waterfalls below)

I now also belong to another womens hiking group called Off the Grid. Both OTG and Traildames are on Meetup.

Mr. Anthony's site has lovely photos of well over 100 waterfalls in North Georgia and I got interested in seeing them. As the weather got hotter through the summer I concentrated on shorter hikes to falls, and falls that were visible from the road. Then, as it started to get cooler again, I started doing longer hikes. It turned out to be far more fun than I expected it to be, and to my surprise - when I added them up - I had been to over 100 myself!

So I decided to make a record of them and of what it's like to visit them, in case anyone else is interested in seeing them too. I will be adding photos and directions, trail conditions, etc. in the future. As I "redo" falls I will update the page that already exists for them, instead of creating a new page every time. Keeping with the format of this blog site, I will put new information at the top of each existing page.

I won't be putting road mileages on the directions, I strongly urge you to compare my directions to a good map so you can see the distances for yourself. I'm not very good at guessing distances, so if I can find a trail length I will use that. If I'm guessing, I'll put a question mark so you'll know!

My apologies for the "watermarks" on the photos, but I have had...and know other people who have had...photos stolen off the net. The watermarks are to ensure that they can't be reused without being identified as mine.

I got a good GPS unit and I'll slowly be putting GPS coordinates for the falls, when I can. If I can get close to the falls the GPS will be for the falls. Otherwise, it will be for where you can see them most easily.

Nov 2012: I got a new PC and now that I can actually get things done (!) I'm going to rearrange the way the falls are listed. I'm going to list them separately, instead of grouping them by the day I saw them. The only ones I'll group are the ones that are on the same creek, or very close - like on the same road.

I've completed rearranging the posts. Hopefully this will help make the falls easier to find. I also found my count was WAY off, so I've updated the total too.

Jan 2013 - I just got a video camera, so I'll be adding short videos of the falls as I am able to get back to them. They might be a bit shakey at first, but hopefully I'll get better as I get used to using it!

Jan 2014 - I almost forgot about posting this! I had been in contact with Sharon Collins, the host of GPB's "Georgia Outdoors"...offering to take her around my 18 Waterfalls tour. She was not able to make it, but I did take her cameraman Shane Keating on the tour. I was hoping they'd do a show about the tour, but that didn't happen. However, some of the shots did show up in the episode "Mountain Magic"...so I've added a link to that episode.

Aug 2015 - I've created a Google map of the waterfalls I either have been to, or know about as publicly accessable, check it out at: https://goo.gl/maps/79Lyb

Got some additional news. The episode of Georgia Outdoors mentioned above, that has some of the shots taken by the cameraman on my 18 Wateralls tour...won a 2015 Southeastern Emmy for "Magazine Program" http://www.gpb.org/emmys

Total Falls

Total waterfalls as of 6/7/2015: 504
Total videos as of 6/7/2015: 180

Friday, December 17, 2010

Talley Mill Creek falls (2 falls)

11/20/2010 - went back to Talley Mill Creek to be sure I had been at the correct place the first time.  I was.  Mr. Anthony says you have to bushwhack to the falls, and that they are right under the road.  So when I got to the storage shed at the end of the road, I did exactly that...just kept going.  Had to be careful in a few places, but I DID find the correct falls and get some good pictures.  I'm not sure why Mr. Anthony did not see the lower ones for his site.  It was perfectly visible from the old road in.

9/23/2010 - set out to find the this falls.  I found the old road down to them pretty easily, considering that I had left the directions I printed out at home!  The road is not maintained, but it's easy to see that someone still drives down it, as there were fresh tire tracks at the camping spot at the end of the road, and there is a storage shed there as well. 

Before you get to the end of the road, there is a nice falls visible in the creek, but to get a good view of it you have to bushwhack down the hill and more or less get in the creek.  But it's not too bad.  I got some nice photos and headed home, only to find - when I got home - that I had pictures of a waterfall, but not the same one as on Mr. Anthony's site!

Directions and Information: from Clayton, GA
  • go east on Rickman St
  • at 5 way junction, bear right onto Warwoman Rd
  • at end, turn left on GA 28
  • after passing through Satola, Ga - road to falls will be on the left, but they are not marked
  • it's easier to keep driving until you cross over Talley Mill Creek - which is marked by a sign
  • then turn around and drive slowly back south and watch for a small area on the right that is just big enough to park in
  • the old road to the creek starts here - may 1/4 mile?
Note: on the hike in, before you cross the tiny branch, look down at the creek and you will see the lower falls.  With care, you can get down to the creek and through the creekside bushes to get a good view of this falls.  For the upper falls, continue to end of road. Go past storage shed, keeping shed to your right.  From this point on, you have to bushwhack your way along the hill until you can find a point to get back down to the creek.  Go upstream until you reach the falls.
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