Nicholson Branch Falls is a 40-foot waterfall tumbling down in a long cascade along Nicholson Branch, which is a tributary of Popcorn Creek near Lake Burton. The waterfall lies off-trail and can be reached via a 0.8-mile bushwhack from Popcorn Creek Road (FR 163).

To learn about more waterfalls in the Clayton area, see chapter 9 in Mark Ozboyd's "Waterfalls of Georgia" guidebook.