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

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Crow Creek falls (3 falls)

This is in the 18 Waterfalls in One Day - hike and drive, see the link on the right

7/21/2013 - went back to get the upper falls on Crow Creek.  The middle falls is so hidden by rhododendrons that it wouldn't video well, and I'm still babying my sore leg and didn't think it would be good to try to slide down the bank to get closer.  Maybe some other time.  But I did get the upper falls.

3/30/2013 - this was on my "check up" day, checking the roads on my 18 Waterfalls trip.  Turned out they are in good shape, especially considering how wet it was in the last few months.  Took advantage of being there to get videos of the falls along the road, including this one.

2/19/2011 - went back to this one, to get better pictures. I also got a picture of a smaller falls between the upper and lower falls. I tried going upstream above the upper falls and from the sound, there's another falls up there - but couldn't see it and the scramble down to the creek looked too difficult to try alone.

6/19/2010 - The lower falls are easily visible from the road. To get to the upper falls, you climb over a mound meant to stop drivers and hike a short way up what is probably an old logging road. There's no sign for the upper falls, but you can hear them and will see an eroded spot where people have walked down to them. This is evidently a popular picnic spot as someone has constructed a large, elaborate rock barbecue here!
GPS: 34°46'26"N 83°31'26"W
 




Directions and Information: from Tallulah Falls, GA
  • north on US 441/US 23
  • left on Old 441
  • immediately right on Old 441
  • left on Lake Rabun Rd.
  • left on Low Gap Rd (below dam)
  • where Low Gap Rd bears left, straight on Crow Creek Rd
  • lower falls is visible from road, on left
  • take trail over block mound and follow your ears to the 2 upper falls
Note: there is a wider area uphill past the falls where you can park off the road

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