Talullah Gorge

 

The deepest gorge East of the Mississippi...nearly 1000' deep. The "Great Wallenda" walked across it in 1974 in 18 minutes, stopping twice to do a headstand, the first as a nod to those of his family who had fallen to their death over the years and the second for "the boys in Viet Nam." It's actually managed by Georgia Power, though it's a State Park. It has a dam (next pic) that was built for power purposes, but twice each year Georgia Power releases the water over the dam, and it draws all the "daredevil" white water kayakers, canoeists, rafters, etc to the gorge for two days of action.