Mud Creek Falls is a 100-foot waterfall on Mud Creek in Rabun County, Georgia, in the Blue Ridge region. It lies about 5.4 miles northeast of Mountain City and roughly 54 miles west of Greenville as the crow flies.
At 100 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Georgia’s 80 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 14th; the typical Georgia waterfall is about 44.5 feet.
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. Mud Creek carries 2 recorded waterfalls; the biggest of them reaches 185 feet.
Rabun County holds 91 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Estatoah Falls, a 185-foot tiered horsetail waterfall, is about 1 miles away. Upper Middle Creek Falls, a 35-foot cascade waterfall, is about 1.7 miles away across the state line in North Carolina. Middle Middle Creek Falls, a 400-foot tiered waterfall, is about 1.8 miles away across the state line in North Carolina.
Mud Creek Falls is located at 34.9832° N, 83.3330° 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.