Fall size:70'
Beauty Scale:6
(1-worth seeing-10 awesome)
Activities: hiking, waterfalls
Facilities:camping, bathrooms, waterfalls
Fees: $2.00 parking
Closest town: Helen, Georgia
For more information:
Directions from Helen
Take GA 75 north from Helen for 8 miles to
Unicoi Gap. Turn left onto Forest Service Road 44(Wilkes Creek Road)
about 5 miles to the Upper Chattahoochee River Camping area. Turn
right and proceed to the day use parking area at the far end of
the camping area.The trail head is past the campground and marked.
Horse Trough Creek
This beautiful falls is on the headwaters
of the Chattahoochee River and can be reached on a short 800' walk
along a easy path. Horsetrough Trail leads to beautiful Horse Trough
Falls, high in the Chattahoochee watershed. Beginning at the trail
head sign to the falls follow the trail 200 yards to the observation
platform which will provide an unobstructed view of the falls. In
the winter, part of the camping area may be closed and it is possible
that you will have to park at the entrance to the camping area and
walk to the trail head, a distance of approximately 1/2 a mile.
In the Mark Trail Wilderness, Horsetrough
Falls is a wide area containing most of the Upper Chattahoochee
River. The hike to the falls starts at the Upper Chattahoochee Campground.
Go past the campground 5 miles on the road that follows the river
and you'll end up in the city of Helen.
Horsetrough Mountain an elevated eastern
ridge of the Blue Ridge Mountains is part of the Appalachian Trail and home to many waterfalls that flow the Chattahoochee
River, which forms within a mile of the falls, about 300 feet below
the Chattahoochee Gap. The water that passes over these falls joins
the river to begin a 500 mile journey to the Gulf of Mexico.
