Tallulah Falls Visitors Center - Tallulah Falls, Georgia

Fdo B.

If you like hiking, this is a perfect place to visit. You can go with your family, friends and pets and enjoy this space full of wonderful landscapes that will make you feel recharged with energy.

Jon R.

Do NOT visit when leaves are on the trees. You will see nothing at the scenic overlooks, which should be renamed "scenic overgrowths".

Lots of confusion about how and what to do to get down to the gorge floor "trail". Here's the scoop:

You are on your own to get down the 1,099 steps on the stairs. But there's a safety class at 8am, 10 am, etc. Once 100 people in total for the day have attended, no more hikers are allowed to the gorge floor. The classes are promptly held every two hours, if your late, too bad. Get to the visitors center 15 to 20 mins early and meet at the information desk. No charge to hike down to the gorge floor, just the $5 parking fee. You must have your vehicle license plate number in order to take the safety class!

The Gorge floor trail is not actually a trail. There is no soil and no permanently mapped out place to walk. It is nothing more than a boulder field all along the edge of the river and you have to crawl, step, climb, and claw your way all over the boulders.

When you've made your way down to the second set of Falls, you have to climb your way out of the canyon. It's about a 900 ft vertical climb and a lot of the time you are on all four climbing over more boulders.

It is an incredibly technical hike. I have hiked two different islands in Hawaii, Glacier National Park, all over Texas, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Georgia, and North Carolina, and this was a very technical hike. You have to be in very good physical condition, have good balance, and no issues with knees ankles,etc, and you have to be able to get your self wet up to possibly your chest depending on water levels. Would I do the Gorge Floor hike again? You bet!

The visitor center is very well maintained and clean with a friendly and knowledgeable staff. The interpretive displays are very well done.

Felice H.

If you want beautiful views with an edge of excitement and an exercise challenge take the stair.

Vmudgil

Love this place. Many trails, falls nearby. We had a 5 yo so thought of doing shortest one to hurricane falls which was 550 steps one way so total 1100+ stairs which we though would be very difficult for us and our kid but to our surprise he climbed those stairs fairly easily vs us as we had to take breaks on the way to catch our breath.

But hiking this was great via suspension bridge climbing down to hurricane falls and then back up. Must go for everyone nearby.

12R1

This place is absolutely beautiful but beware of going down into the gorge it can be very difficult for some and the hike out of there is no joke. Make sure your in good shape or you'll be taking a helicopter ride out of there☠️

Kelsey J. G.

If you’re looking for a very easy walk to a waterfall view, you can easily park and see the waterfall from two vantage points and be back in your car in ~20-30mins. If you want a more physically trying adventure, there are additional vantage points but we were satisfied with the first two! Some 100+ stairs take you to the additional ones, and a family with two small children who we saw coming back from those further points said it wasn’t worth it with small kiddos. The visitor center was closed but the bathrooms were available (very unkempt but functional). Easy parking, $5 donation.

Auguste

We stopped here on our way back home. We walked around for about a 1/2 hour. Tallulah Gourge is breath taking. We are planning a trip for this year as we really want to experience the entire gourge and the falls up close.

The visitors center is an awesome trip through history. If you have never been here this truly is a must visit wonder.

Alistair 1.

One of the stops on an anniversary trip, Tullulah gorge visitor center has it's own small museum of taxidermy specimens of local wildlife. There is a suspension bridge across the gorge and from top to bottom to back up again it is over 1000 steps. The gift shop was also one of the cheapest I've ever seen. Lots of great products for yourself or gifts.