Hiking Distance: 5 miles round trip
Difficulty: Easy/Moderate
The trail head is located on 2.3 miles along Richard B. Russell Scenic Highway which can be reached from Alt Hwy 75 near Helen, GA. There are plenty of parking spaces for this popular trail. You might want to consider combining this hike with Dukes Creek Falls which is about a mile back on the Scenic Highway toward Alt 75.
Hiking this trail is best done in the Spring and Fall to take advantage of the Spring rains and the Fall colors. However be prepared for it to be busy especially when you reach the final destination of Raven Cliffs. The trail is fairly easy as it mostly runs alongside Dodd Creek. There are several small foot bridges to cross. If you look carefully as you hike this trail there are a number of small waterfalls and with a short detour off the main trail you can get very close to them. At 2.5 miles you will reach Raven Cliffs which again has a waterfall. There is a way to scale the cliffs by making use of the tree roots between the rocks but this is getting harder to do as a lot of people have done this and the roots are deteriorating. At the top of the cliffs is another trail but it eventually dead ends into the brush.
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