Rhodo Falls
Oconee County, South Carolina
Your visit at a glance
- Waterfall height
- Not recorded
- Location
- Oconee County, South Carolina
- Access status
- Partial guide: unofficial, overgrown path from a forest road
- The walk
- Less than 0.3 mile from the road, per Hiking the Appalachians
- Ground & access
- Faint, unofficial path overgrown with rhododendron and dog hobble. Rocks are very slippery.
Rhodo Falls is a small cascade on North Fork Fall Creek in Sumter National Forest, just below the point where North Fork Fall Creek flows into Fall Creek. From the pull-off on FS 722, a path heads down toward the sound of Andrew Ramey Falls; a visitor account describes pink flagging at the start. Past Andrew Ramey Falls the path becomes fainter in a rhododendron thicket and passes Midway Falls and then Rhodo Falls. There is no official trail. Return the same way.
Plan your visit
Pull-off at the Fall Creek tributary culvert on FS 722, down the unofficial path past Andrew Ramey Falls to Rhodo Falls
Hiking the Appalachians passes both small cascades before the path reaches the bottomlands along Fall Creek at about 0.3 mile. Return the same way.
Faint, unofficial path overgrown with rhododendron and dog hobble. Rocks are very slippery.
Where to start
Pull-off on FS 722 (Fall Creek Road) where it crosses a tributary of Fall Creek, 0.5 mile past the turn onto the forest road, per Waterfall Hero. Hiking the Appalachians describes a small pullout just beyond the culvert for two or three cars and a larger one before it.
Timing & water
Best in winter and spring, per Hiking the Appalachians. FS 722 is unpaved.
Before you go
Hiking the Appalachians lists no fees.
Visitor informationVisit sources
- Hiking the Appalachians and Beyond: Fall Creek Waterfalls
- Hiking the Appalachians and Beyond: Fall Creek Waterfalls
- Hiking the Appalachians and Beyond: Fall Creek Waterfalls
- Hiking the Appalachians and Beyond: Fall Creek Waterfalls
- Mark's Photo Travels: Raines Mill and the Waterfalls of Fall Creek
- Mark's Photo Travels: Raines Mill and the Waterfalls of Fall Creek
- Waterfall Hero: Fall Creek Waterfalls (Chattooga)
- Waterfall Hero: Fall Creek Waterfalls (Chattooga)
More waterfalls nearby
Within 40 straight-line miles. Road and trail distances will differ.
- Midway FallsPartial guide: unofficial, overgrown path from a forest roadOconee County, SC0.1 miE
- Andrew Ramey FallsPartial guide: short unofficial scramble path from a forest roadOconee County, SC0.1 miSE
- Pristine FallsPartial guide: unofficial path, ford and scrambleOconee County, SC0.2 miSW
- Little Fall Creek FallsOconee County, SC0.3 miS
- Triple FallsOconee County, SC0.8 miSW
- Fall Creek FallsPartial guide: unofficial, unmarked path through national forestOconee County, SC0.8 miSW
- Side Pocket FallsOconee County, SC0.9 miW
- Final FallsOconee County, SC0.9 miW
- Reedy Branch FallsNational forest roadbed walk to the falls documentedOconee County, SC2.0 miSW