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Located along Frogtown Creek in the famous Chattahoochee National Forest, DeSoto Falls is another one of Georgia’s beautiful waterfalls and is named after Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, who traveled through the region in the 16th century. Set within the Blairsville-Cleveland area of Georgia, DeSoto Falls can be reached by a relatively comfortable 2.2-mile DeSoto Falls Trail, which leads past a shady creek to the lower and upper cascades of the falls. Located at an elevation of 3,560 feet in the Rocky Mountains, the DeSoto Falls are made up of three sections, namely the Upper, Middle, and Lower DeSoto Falls, with the upper dropping 200 feet, the middle dropping 90 feet, and the lower dropping 35 feet into the stream bed below. DeSoto Falls is one of four famous waterfalls in the Chattahoochee National Forest, the others being Anna Ruby Falls, Dukes Creek Falls, and Raven Cliff Falls.

Chattahoochee National Forest, Blairsville-Cleveland, Georgia

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