Upper Blood Mountain Falls is a waterfall on Blood Mountain Creek in Lumpkin County, Georgia, in the Blue Ridge region. It lies about 14 miles northwest of Cleveland and roughly 49.7 miles northeast of Alpharetta as the crow flies.
Its height has not been recorded in the source data. By form it is a horsetail, where the water keeps some contact with the bedrock as it falls.
The Blue Ridge is the highest part of the southern Appalachians, a range of forested peaks and coves with oak, hickory, tulip poplar and hemlock and spruce-fir on the summits, in one of the wettest climates in the East. Steep mountain streams drop over granite, gneiss and quartzite ledges, giving the region hundreds of waterfalls. Blood Mountain Creek carries 4 recorded waterfalls along its course.
Lumpkin County holds 36 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Frogface Falls, is under a mile away. Blood Mountain Falls, 60 feet high, is about 1.1 miles away. Wolf Creek Falls, is about 1.3 miles away.
Upper Blood Mountain Falls is located at 34.7347° N, 83.9434° W. The listing is based on the World Waterfall Database, one of the sources compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey in its inventory of waterfalls and rapids of the conterminous United States. The creek name is confirmed against the federal Geographic Names Information System. The position was verified on aerial imagery. Details on trails, parking and access have not been documented for this waterfall yet.