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

Monday, July 1, 2013

Chechero Creek falls-US 76

6/22/2013 - went back up to Rabun County to get some videos.  Couldn't get a good angle on the lower falls here, too much brush in the way.  Will have to try in the fall, after the leaves have dropped.  You can see from the video I did get what a difference the time of year makes!

12/18/2010 - on the way home from getting some other falls, I decide to detour and try for better pictures of the falls along Hwy 76. Got MUCH better ones and also found that there is a lower falls as well. I couldn't get near enough for a good angle on the lower falls...will have to go back and see if there's a way to walk up the creek and get nearer.

This time I did ask if the falls were named and the attendant said he was not aware that they had a name. The creek used to run down the other side of the highway, and an ice dam rerouted it. So, to keep it from running over the road, a culvert was put in to get it under the road.

According to GMAPS these falls are on Chechero Creek

11/7/2010 This falls can be seen from the trash compactor site on the right as you drive east towards Kingswood Golf course. I don't know if it has a name, I forgot to ask. 
 
 
 
Directions and Information: from Clayton GA
  • go east on US 76
  • watch on the right for a trash compactor station
  • enter the station
  • stop at the office and let them know why you are there
  • falls can be seen through the fence at the far end, past the compactor, where the drive u-turns to go back to the highway
Note: The attendent said a LOT of water goes over when there's been rain, but there hadn't been much when I was there.
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