Staff photo by Dan Henry/Chattanooga Times Free Press
Wesley Myers, assistant manager at Cloudland Canyon State Park, speaks about a contest that the park is having to name its two waterfalls. Now they’re just called No. 1 and No. 2.RISING FAWN, Ga.-For thousands of years, water has poured over two unnamed sandstone and shale ledges at Cloudland Canyon, but the waterfalls will not be nameless much longer.
Officials with Georgia State Parks are holding a contest to name the two waterfalls on Daniel Creek in Cloudland Canyon.
Kim Hatcher, spokeswoman for Georgia State Parks, said it’s possible someone could come forward during the contest with a documented historical name, but the department doesn’t know of any. “In the research that the park has done, they haven’t found anything,” she said.
Maps handed out at the park’s visitor center call the cascades Falls No. 1 and Falls No. 2. Trail signs and another map simply refer to them as First and Second Waterfall. The first falls is about 60 feet high, and the second is about 90 feet, according to park literature.
On Friday, the creek rushed around boulders and hardwoods while a mist from the cascading falls floated around the evergreens.