Do you notice how I occasionally write about places I haven't seen, or heard of, but when I do hear about them, I'd like to go see them? Well, if you haven't noticed, I do that. This particular post is about a place that I've been relatively close to, a couple of times, but never knew it was there. Now, I don't know if I had known it was there if I would have tried to get there, but it's possible.
So, as you might have figured out from the title of the post, the place I've just heard of is Amicalola Falls. It's in Georgia, north of Atlanta in the Chattahoochee National Forest, and actually located in a state park that's named for it. It is a popular park, by description, as it has a lodge with a restaurant and apparently quite a few activities, in addition to falls-gazing.
The falls are described as being a 729-foot tall cascading waterfall, the third-highest of that kind east of the Mississippi River. I did a short check on that and I could not determine the names and locations of the ones that are deemed to be higher. That "third-highest" stat is actually off the website above. One that might be considered higher is Whitewater Falls in North Carolina, which as a system of falls is likely over 800 feet, but it seems there is some dispute over whether that's the right way to measure them, or if the Whitewater Falls "system" should at least be considered two distinct waterfalls. And I couldn't find a candidate for the other one.
Getting back to Amicalola Falls, I've been to Atlanta, and I've driven through and past Atlanta on I-75, and I've also been to upstate South Carolina. I've even visited Whitewater Falls! However, not knowing about the existence of the Amicalola cascade, none of these visits put me on their road.
So, as you might guess, I've got a picture and a video below. Enjoy, and if you're in the neighborhood, go see them, especially during the high flow months in the spring. The picture shows some of the 729-foot drop of this geological spectacle.
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