One-Tank Trip: See 6 waterfalls at Tallulah Gorge State Park
TALLULAH FALLS, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - For this week’s One-Tank Trip, we visited north Georgia and Tallulah Gorge State Park.
It’s a popular park. Last year, they had more than a million visitors.
You don’t get views like this everywhere.
“The gorge is pretty special,” said Assistant Manager Erin Hadjidakis. “We’re one of the largest canyons east of the Mississippi River. Back in the day, a lot of people referred to the gorge as the Niagara of the south.”
She works at the state park built around Tallulah Gorge.
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Inside the multi-story visitor center, you can learn all about the area’s history and the animals you can find there.
They also have a movie theater. We saw it showing a clip from the 1970s of someone walking across the gorge on a tightrope.
“I would never do that, but I mean, I think it’s really cool that it has been done,” said Hadjidakis.
An old tower used to hold up that tightrope can still be found at the park.
Down nearly a thousand feet to the bottom of the gorge, there are six waterfalls.
You can see one up close from a suspension bridge.
“A suspension bridge over a waterfall is really cool,” she said.
If you go all the way down though – , you have to come back up hundreds of stairs.
“Our famous staircase trail, which is 1,099 staircase steps,” said Hadjidakis.
The park also has camping areas.
Later in the year, they will offer permits to use a climbing wall and go swimming on a sliding rock down in the gorge.
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