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, March 16, 2015

Lula Lakes Falls (4 falls)

Lula Lakes Falls are on the grounds of the Lula Lakes Land Trust (http://www.lulalake.org/).

 5/7/2015 - spent the weekend at Cloudland Canyon on an Off the Grid event.  On Saturday we went to Lula Lakes.  The road is in MUCH better condition and has been paved.  Got 2 more small waterfalls on the road from the parking to the lakes.  There were actually 2 others, one along the road and one coming in from the side above the upper falls...but these both didn't look like they might be permanent falls, so I didn't get those.  The water volume was tremendous on the 2 big falls.  Quite a change from when I was there the first time!

9/4/2010 - You can't go just anytime you like, you have to check the website to find out when they will be open. The parking is about a mile from the first falls and is an easy hike. It's pretty close to level and you could even take a bike if that suits your fancy.  I wished I'd had mine!

On the day I was there the road down the hill to the parking area was in VERY bad shape, very deep ruts right down the middle. With a little care to be sure I was straddling the ruts, I was able to make it, along with maybe 100 other people! Once you are down in the valley the road is much better. And again, going out (it's a different road from coming in) the road was bad, but not as bad as the road in.
There was no fee the day I was there, but they were asking for donations for the land trust.
There are some fantastic rock formations that you can see along the creek as you hike to the falls. There are several hiking trails there also. The falls were just a trickle that day due to the lack of rain, but at least there was SOME water flowing over!

The first 2 falls are pretty small and right along the road from the parking to the lakes.  They're a bit hard to see due to the shadows.

GPS: 
Falls #1 : 34.93741°N 85.37315°W
Falls #2: 34.93263°N 85.37158°
Upper Falls: 34.93041°N 85.37564°W
Lower Falls: 34.92756°N 85.37798°W




 These 2 falls are on Rock Creek



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

Directions and Information: can be found at http://www.lulalake.org/ - for directions click on the link at the top for "the trust" then on the "find us" link on the right
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