Tallulah Falls, GA

We have decided to make the Tallulah Falls area our home base for the winter. We enjoy being outside and in nature and this really is the place to be. We are avid hikers and mountain bikers. Though my son is more into mountain biking than me. This area is full of adventure. The day after we got down here we went and checked out the park and it is absolutely awesome. We took a walk and decided that the $5.00 day pass was not going to work for us. We got the yearly pass and it was $50.00 dollars and I am sure we have gotten our moneys worth already.

We have walked the rim trail at least twice and we have gone to the bottom 3 times so far. This park is always changing it feels like. When we got down here the gorge was quiet the river flowing bellow and the views were epic.

The North Rim Trail takes you high up the one side of the canyon walls. The South Rim Trail is just as awesome taking you around the other side of the canyon and the 2 trails meet down at the suspension bridge in the canyon.

This is the Parks Party Piece, the 1,099 stairs that take you to the canyon floor and back up the other side. We have seen this park peaceful and we have seen this park as the monster it can be.

Photos from the Bridge one with 2 fins open and one with 7 fins open. Here is where it is the loudest and you can just hear the thunder in the canyon with all that water. It is just amazing how much water they can push through here if they need to.

We got between 5 and 6 inches of rain in a day down here with winter storm Finn and we got to see what this gorge is like when they have 7 fins open on the Tallulah AP Powerhouse Dam and the are pouring water out of Tallulah Lake to keep everything up stream from flooding.

Hurricane Falls

This river can be a force and the photo’s really do speak a thousand words of what the park is. It is nature at it finest and what man has forced upon it to keep people up stream safe.

The View Downstream from the Hurricane Falls lookout spot at the bottom of the gorge.

This park also has some awesome mountain biking it has 2 trails that are hiking/biking trails I believe a total of 12 miles round trip.

The main one is Stoneplace Trail which takes you down and out of the park into management land so you need a permit from the visitor center which is free to ride it. But this is an awesome ride and if you only want to ride down and have a friend with a 4×4 you can have them meet you at the bottom since there is a management area trail that takes you down the the boat ramp for tugaloo lake. You have to have 4×4 to use this trail, the sign says at the top. And when you get down it you will know why you need it.

The other is High Bluff Trail another you need a free permit from the visitors center to ride. this one is shorter but connects into stoneplace trail and can be rode as a loop.

On a normal day you can cross the river and walk down to 2 more sets of falls with a permit from the visitor center, but we will not be able to do that until they are done with dam maintenance.

Pretty cool I am glad I drug my feet on this post but I definitely think it was worth it to see Tallulah Gorge State Park with all her sides.