About this spot
Cloudland Canyon State Park, Rising Fawn GA; $5 per vehicle day-use parking fee. Reached via the Waterfalls Trail, a steep roughly 2-mile round trip descending about 600 steps into the canyon, with Cherokee Falls the first of two falls at about the half-mile mark. The falls drop about 60 feet on Daniel Creek into a clear, aqua-tinted plunge pool that is a well-documented summer swimming spot, though the water stays cold and the rocky bottom makes water shoes worthwhile. The hazard that matters is slick rock around the pool and real current at the base; this is wild terrain with no lifeguards, not a maintained pool. Swimming is popular and permitted; cliff jumping is not documented here. The climb back out of the canyon is strenuous.
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