Sterling on the Lake

1/18/2012 - After going to Fairmont on the Park, I drove past Sterling on the Lake and decided to go in and see if the trail to the waterfall was open.  It's been closed for nearly a year due to a bridge being out...but this day it was open.  As far as I can tell it's an open trail, I didn't see any No Trespassing signs. It's a fairly short, easy walk on mostly paved trail.  At the second bridge, where the trail crosses over the creek there's a faint natural trail that goes upstream a short way to the falls.  It's actually a bit of a scramble, which seems kind of funny as there is a sign at the beginning pointing to the waterfall, but there's not really much of a trail to get close to it!

It's a pretty sloping waterfall and probably, really, falls somewhere in that grey area between a falls and a shoals, but since I've been trying to get to it for a year it counts!

GMAPS does not show a name for this creek, but it flows into Looper Lake

GPS: 34.14564° -83.90644°

Directions and Information: from I985

• Exit 12 - south on Spout Springs Rd
• right on Lake Sterling Blvd (main entrance to Sterling on the Lake)
• continue to tennis courts on left and park here
• trail and waterfall sign is at far corner of tennis court fence

Note: follow paved trail across first bridge over small side creek, and at bridge over the creek continue upstream on faint trail to falls.  The falls goes over a sizable rock formation that juts out into the creek and provides a nice platform to get pictures.