Northern Georgia has beautiful landscape and some of the better waterfalls east of the Mississippi. So with camera and a Google map of a waterfall one day route in hand, we jump in the car (with 2 days planning) and take off for Georgia. We are not sure how much we can see, but we have always been 'get-r-done' travelers - decide what we want to see and see it and head home - this trip was no exception. The travel north went extremely well and before we knew it we were visiting the town of Dahlonega. We toured the town briefly seeing many shops, the Gold Museum and more, but our stomachs were aching for a nice casual Southern-style dinner which we enjoyed at The Historic Smith House Inn (which had a once active gold vein). We had fried chicken, ham, creamed corn, steak in gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans, and the best collard greens I can recall.
The next morning we took off on our 200 mile/one day waterfalls journey. The falls were flowing, and the leaves were golden throughout our route. We were able to see 5-6 falls (one we could noy find with cellualr service frequently out due to mountain terrain. At Talluhla Falls State Park we started together but then learned that in order to see the entire falls you had to walk down ... and back up over 600 steps! I took the challenge, made it down and on the way up, missed the waterfall crossing bridge path and wound up on the other side of the ravine almost 2 miles from the car.
The trip was great and we saw farms, private mountain lakes with mega mansions along one lane dirt roads and lots more). We plan to return to more casually explore the town of Helen, a Georgia wineries and more on our way to and from Tennessee and Opryland in the spring of 2017.
(Notes: Boarding School, China Express, Dirt Roads, Hiking Trails, 13,200 steps)
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The next morning we took off on our 200 mile/one day waterfalls journey. The falls were flowing, and the leaves were golden throughout our route. We were able to see 5-6 falls (one we could noy find with cellualr service frequently out due to mountain terrain. At Talluhla Falls State Park we started together but then learned that in order to see the entire falls you had to walk down ... and back up over 600 steps! I took the challenge, made it down and on the way up, missed the waterfall crossing bridge path and wound up on the other side of the ravine almost 2 miles from the car.
The trip was great and we saw farms, private mountain lakes with mega mansions along one lane dirt roads and lots more). We plan to return to more casually explore the town of Helen, a Georgia wineries and more on our way to and from Tennessee and Opryland in the spring of 2017.
(Notes: Boarding School, China Express, Dirt Roads, Hiking Trails, 13,200 steps)
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