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Anna Ruby Falls is located near Unicoi State Park in White County near
Image:AnnaRubyFalls GeorgiaUSA.jpg, Cascade below Anna Ruby Falls
File:Anna Ruby Falls - Curtis Creek.jpg, Falls on Curtis Creek side
File:Anna Ruby Falls - York Creek.jpg, Falls on York Creek side
File:Anna Ruby (19288356759).jpg, Anna Ruby Nichols for whom the falls are named, 1865
Anna Ruby Falls Virtual TourHistory of Anna Ruby Falls (video)
Waterfalls of Georgia (U.S. state) Protected areas of White County, Georgia Landforms of White County, Georgia
Anna Ruby Falls is located near Unicoi State Park in White County near Helen, Georgia
Helen is a city in White County, Georgia, United States, located along the Chattahoochee River. The population was 531 at the 2020 census. The city has now been made over, as a tourist attraction, to look like an old-world Bavarian village. T ...
. The waterfall
A waterfall is any point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops. Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge
of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf.
Waterfalls can be formed in seve ...
is accessible via a half mile (800m) paved trail from a public use area with a small admittance charge. The Anna Ruby Falls Trail is designated a National Recreation Trail
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in Georgia.
Anna Ruby Falls is actually twin waterfalls created where two separate streams Curtis Creek and York Creek join at the base of the falls to form Smith Creek, which flows into Unicoi Lake. Both Curtis and York creeks begin on Tray Mountain, Georgia's sixth-highest peak: Curtis Creek drops and York Creek drops . The falls are named after Anna Ruby Nichols, the daughter of an early settler.
The Anna Ruby Falls Scenic Area is a area around Anna Ruby Falls and is part of the Chattahoochee National Forest
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, though access is only through Unicoi State Park. The U.S. Forest Service
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leases
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it to the non-profit
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Cradle of Forestry. The Cradle of Forestry accepts the "Golden Age" pass, allowing seniors in free. There is an entry fee for the parking area, and Georgia ParkPasses (required for parking at Unicoi) are not honored.
Anna Ruby Falls is one of four popular waterfalls located in the forest near Helen, Georgia
Helen is a city in White County, Georgia, United States, located along the Chattahoochee River. The population was 531 at the 2020 census. The city has now been made over, as a tourist attraction, to look like an old-world Bavarian village. T ...
. Two of the other waterfalls, Dukes Creek Falls and Raven Cliff Falls, are also in White County, while the third waterfall, DeSoto Falls, is in neighboring Lumpkin County.
See also
*List of waterfalls
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* Waterfalls of North Georgia
*Ruby Falls
Ruby Falls is an underground waterfall in Ruby Falls Cave, located at the end of an approximately 85 foot tall recessional gorge within Lookout Mountain, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the United States. The cave is commercialized with electri ...
, an underground waterfall under Lookout Mountain
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in Tennessee
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that bears a similar name
References
External links
{{commons category, Anna Ruby FallsAnna Ruby Falls Virtual Tour
Waterfalls of Georgia (U.S. state) Protected areas of White County, Georgia Landforms of White County, Georgia