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| Photo by me, July 2016. |
As with most places in Alabama, High Falls waterfall is in the middle of nowhere in the northern part of the state a few miles east of the Tennessee River. Once you turn off the main road you find yourself driving between large fields, chicken farms and down narrow little roads that are more like lanes but at least they are paved. This waterfall is off the beaten path even by Alabama standards and is not all that well known outside of locals but it is worth a visit.
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| Photo by me, July 2016. |
A walk down a path from the parking lot, through a picnic area and you emerge through the tree canopy to find the waterfall from an overlook. Unfortunately, when I came it was the driest time in summer and the water flow was low. So what is probably a beautiful waterfall in more wet weather was little more than a small trickle cascading thirty-five feet over the rocks into a pool below. It was so dry that the view was more of a rocky cliff than a waterfall. I recommend coming after a heavy rain or in the winter if you want to see more water gushing over the cliff.
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| Photo by me, July 2016. |
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| Photo by me, July 2016. |
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| Photo by me, July 2016. |
Still the lack of water did not deter people from enjoying the rocks to jump down into the pool of water below. With the lack of raging water this was actually a great place to go swimming on a hot summer's day.
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| Photo by me, July 2016. |
As you can see the water here in Town Creek is very shallow as it approaches the waterfall and you can easily walk out to the edge without getting swept away when the water is low.
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| Photo by me, July 2016. |
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| Photo by me, July 2016. |
The calm waters were reflecting the sky well on a hot July day.
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| Photo by me, July 2016. |
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| Photo by me, July 2016. |
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| Photo by me, July 2016. |
To have a better view of the landscape there is a pedestrian bridge above the waterfall.
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| Photo by me, July 2016. |
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| Photo by me, July 2016. |
Prior to the current bridge there had been a covered bridge that spanned the shallow creek. As with some many things, especially covered bridges, the bridge was lost to time and burned in the 1950s.
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| Photo by me, July 2016. |
The only remaining portions of the covered bridge are the original stone support pillars from the early 1920s.
For more information and directions to this out of the way place you can go here.
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