Cooper Falls is named in honor of Joseph Cooper, a local nature photographer and former U.S. Forest Service ranger who has spent countless days roaming the Cohutta Wilderness and was part of the group who first documented this waterfall. A 35-foot waterfall in the extremely remote upper reaches of Rough Creek, Cooper Falls can be reached via a long and difficult bushwhack along an abandoned railroad bed that follows Rough Creek upstream from the Hickory Creek Trail.

For detailed directions, see page 45 in Mark Ozboyd's "Waterfalls of Georgia" guidebook.