Difficulty: Moderate
Distance: 1.5 miles
Cost: $5 Parking fee
Cloudland Canyon is a beautiful state park in Northwest Georgia. It is a heavily trafficked state park but offers beautiful views and several waterfalls. This park is kid-friendly, though the hike down to the waterfalls is tough. The views are accessible but ONLY by a cane.Â
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Cloudland Canyon is located a little over 1.5 hours east of Huntsville. It is a major state park in Georgia.
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Trail
The trail down to the waterfalls is steep but has stairs. There are 600 stairs in this canyon and it is very strenuous. You can find the stairs following the ridgeline back towards to entrance of the park (staring at the view, to the left).
Cherokee Falls
Cherokee Falls is the first waterfall you come to heading down the stairs. There is a trail fork where you can go down to the right and continue down the stairs or to the left to the waterfall. This is the second fork you come to. If you do not know if you have hit the second split, look for the signs. The second split tells you there is a waterfall to the left. When you are done at the waterfall, come back up the path until you hit the split and continue to follow the path down the opposite direction.
Hemlock Falls
Continue to follow the path down. You’ll hit another fork. Take the left path to get to Cherokee Falls!
When you’re done here turn around and find your way back up to the fork. You can continue down the trail and find another smaller waterfall or you can head back out.
Cherokee Falls
The view at the top is no slouch either. You can get here from the parking area just by following the ridgeline all the way to the end!
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