Unnamed Bonus Falls
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canyonwalkerNorth Carolina Travelog #8
Pisgah National Forest - Thu, 21 Sep 2023. 12:30pm
On the drive up to Slide Rock Falls this morning we heard the sound of waterfalls as we approached. It was an un-busy road in the middle of the week, and we had the car's windows open to enjoy the pleasant weather and fresh mountain breeze. (Plus our car was starting to smell like wet hiking boots when left closed up for too long. 😅) "This must be it," we thought. But it was not. The parking area for Slide Rock was 1/2 mile further up the canyon.
"Well, let's go back and figure out what those other falls are next!" we agreed. So after Slide Rock we hopped in the car for a minute to roll down the road to an unmarked pulloff.
We looked over the edge of the pulloff and saw a nice little waterfalls in the river running alongside the road. All it would take to get down there was a bit of careful footwork— which we were totally prepared for, in terms of both equipment, skill, and mindset. We stepped over the knee-high rock wall and scrambled down the slope and out onto rocks in the river.
It turned out there were (at least) two waterfalls down here, one a bit upstream from the other. We visited the upstream falls first (above) then picked our way along the steep bank to the lower falls.
After spending a bit of time at both falls we climbed back up the embankment, a height of 25 feet or so, back to our parked car.
It's phenomenal that there are so many waterfalls in this area we can just listen for them as we drive and hop out to explore them!
Pisgah National Forest - Thu, 21 Sep 2023. 12:30pm
On the drive up to Slide Rock Falls this morning we heard the sound of waterfalls as we approached. It was an un-busy road in the middle of the week, and we had the car's windows open to enjoy the pleasant weather and fresh mountain breeze. (Plus our car was starting to smell like wet hiking boots when left closed up for too long. 😅) "This must be it," we thought. But it was not. The parking area for Slide Rock was 1/2 mile further up the canyon.
"Well, let's go back and figure out what those other falls are next!" we agreed. So after Slide Rock we hopped in the car for a minute to roll down the road to an unmarked pulloff.
We looked over the edge of the pulloff and saw a nice little waterfalls in the river running alongside the road. All it would take to get down there was a bit of careful footwork— which we were totally prepared for, in terms of both equipment, skill, and mindset. We stepped over the knee-high rock wall and scrambled down the slope and out onto rocks in the river.
It turned out there were (at least) two waterfalls down here, one a bit upstream from the other. We visited the upstream falls first (above) then picked our way along the steep bank to the lower falls.
After spending a bit of time at both falls we climbed back up the embankment, a height of 25 feet or so, back to our parked car.
It's phenomenal that there are so many waterfalls in this area we can just listen for them as we drive and hop out to explore them!
