Waterfall Trip Reports

Here you will find links to the adventures of waterfallers from all walks of life. Some of these trips are more suited to hard-core waterfallers who like to hike on the edge, while others are for those who don’t even like to get out of the car. The one thing they all have in common is that they were all written by folks who love visiting North Carolina’s waterfalls.

This page is open to anyone who wishes to provide links to their waterfall adventures. I ask only that you do not include any excessive commercialism in the report. If the report is little more than an advertisement for something you’re trying to sell, I probably won’t provide the link for you.

Please do not send me a link to the home page of your blog or website. I’m afraid I don’t have time to wade through sites looking for appropriate reports. Instead, please send me a direct link to the trip report.

If you would like to have your trip report included, but you do not have a website or blog to host it on, please send it to me as a Word or PDF document and I will host it on this site for you.

All trip reports must include your name and the date you made the trip.

Doug Allen

April 2017 — Eastatoe, Mill Shoals, Bird Rock, Lemon, Avery Creek, Looking Glass, Slick Rock, Catheys Creek, Triple, Log Hollow, Discovery, Courthouse, Dill
October 2016 — Waterfalls in Cullasaja River Gorge, Secret Falls, Eastatoe Falls, Second Falls

Chris Armenti

September 2020 — Snowbird loop hike to see Sassafras Falls, Middle Falls, Upper Falls, Big Falls

Chris Berrier (A.K.A Waterfalls Hiker)

August 2017 — Cullasaja Falls
July 2017 — English Falls 
June 2017 — Yellow Creek Falls
June 2017 —  Rufus Morgan Falls
April 2017  —  Lower Bearwallow Falls
March 2017  — Pot Branch Falls
January 2017 — Cove Creek Falls 
October 2016 — Upper Creek Falls
October 2016 — Upper Sols Creek Falls
December 2015 — Log Hollow Falls, Discovery Falls, Logging Road Falls
October 2015 — Dismal Falls and nearby waterfalls
September 2015 — Big Falls on Thompson River
June 2015 — Glen Marie and Glen Burney
June 2015 — Setrock Creek Falls
June 2015 — Roaring Fork Falls
May 2015 — Horsepasture River
October 2014 — Secret Falls
October 2014 — Stairway Falls
September 2014 — Bradley Falls from the bottom

Beth Bradshaw

August 2019 — Walnut Bottom Creek in Caldwell County
February 2019 — Woodruff Branch and a new waterfall on a tributary
July 2018 — Honeycamp Branch exploration in Panthertown Valley

Jeff Clark (A.K.A. Meanderthals)

December 2015 — Chasteen Creek Falls (Cascade), GSMNP
July 2015 — Crabtree Falls, BRP
March 2015 — Big Creek Trail to Mouse Creek Falls
December 2014 — Frozen Waterfalls in Pisgah National Forest
December 2014 — High Shoals Falls, South Mountains SP
September 2014 — Cat Gap & Butter Gap Trails to Grogan Creek Falls

Andy Kunkle (A.K.A. Fungi)

February 2019 — Several waterfalls on Tough Hill Branch near Gragg
October 2014 — North Harper Creek
September 2014 — Courthouse Creek
September 2014 — Tumblin’ Fun Falls
June 2014 — Dismal Falls
January 2014 — Headwaters State Forest
December 2013 — World’s Edge
April 2013 — Licklog Branch
March 2013 — Mount Hardy Falls
January 2013 — Big Ivy
February 2012 — Yellow Fork Paddy Creek
October 2011 — Harper Creek
May 2011 — Curtis Creek trib
July 2010 — Paradise Falls
July 2010 — Tellico River
June 2009 — Catawba Falls
December 2008 — Crabtree Falls, Toms Creek Falls
February 2008 — Catawba Falls
January 2007 — Douglas Falls
November 2006 — Harper Creek
September 2006 — Little Lost Cove Creek Falls
October 2004 — South Harper Creek Falls
October 2003 — North Harper Creek Falls

Jordan Mitchell

February 2015 — Shope Creek area of Pisgah NF
December 2014 — Little Bearwallow Falls

Mark Oleg

September 2017 — Waterfalls on the upper section of Whitewater River
July 2017  — Twisting Falls (In Tennessee, but close to NC border.)
October 2014 — Upper and Lower Whitewater Falls
September 2014 — Panthertown Valley waterfalls
July 2014 — Graveyard Fields and Black Balsam

Zachary Robbins

May 2016 — Big Creek and Mount Cammerer in the Smokies
March 2016 — Crabtree Falls
December 2015 — Catawba Falls and Upper Catawba Falls
April 2015 — High Shoals Falls and Shinny Creek in South Mountains State Park
March 2015 — Glen Burney and Glen Marie Falls
March 2015 — Upper Creek Falls
January 2015 — Lower Cascade Falls in Hanging Rock State Park
January 2015 — Roaring Fork Falls
September 2014 — Gully Creek to Cumberland Knob
September 2014 — Boone Fork and Hebron Colony Falls
July 2014 — Big Sandy Creek and Stone Mountain
June 2014 — Basin Creek in Doughton Park
June 2014 — Indian Creek in Hanging Rock SP

Josh Simons

September 2014 — Zen Falls in Linville Gorge
April 2014 — All the waterfalls of Panthertown in one day
January 2014 — Panthertown Creek Falls
August 2013 — Rockefeller Plaza and Dellinger Falls, Linville Gorge
May 2013 — Dismal Falls from Panthertown
March 2012 — Cathedral Falls in Linville Gorge

Steve Temple

April 2017 — McGalliard, Eastatoe, Rock House, Miller, Secret in NC and Pinnacle, Twin, King Creek in SC 
April 2016 — Lower Bubbling Spring Branch, Cullasaja, Dry, Glen, Pinky, Burningtown, Catawba 
June 2015 — Somey Creek, Big Bradley, Seven, Pinnacle (SC), Roaring Fork, Setrock Creek
April 2015 — Toms Creek, Second, High, Rough Run, Cold Creek, Slippery Witch, Twin, and several others
October 2014 — Graveyard Fields, NC 215, Whitewater Falls, & others

Jack Thyen (A.K.A SCJack)

February 2019 — Waterfall discovery in Green River Game Lands 
January 2015 — Misc falls near Franklin & Highlands
October 2014 — Dismal Falls
September 2014 — Thompson River
July 2014 — Yellow Fork Paddy Creek
May 2014 — Douglas Falls, Walker Falls, etc.
March 2014 — Little Cove Creek
February 2014 — Kuykendall Falls & Catheys Creek Falls
January 2014 — Reece Place Falls
October 2012 — Flat Creek Falls
October 2012 — Secret Falls
August 2012 — Wintergreen Falls
August 2012 — Bearwallow Creek
August 2012 — Lower Bearwallow Falls
July 2012 — Twin Falls & Slippery Witch
July 2012 — High Falls & Reid Branch
July 2012 — Dorothy Falls & Johns Jump

Dan Weemhoff

June 2012 — Courthouse Falls
June 2012 — Toms Spring Falls 
October 2012 — Rufus Morgan Falls
August 2012 — Bearwallow Falls
February 2013 — Linville Falls
April 2014 — Lower Bearwallow Falls, Auger Hole
January 2014 — Gorges State Park, Rainbow Falls, Turtleback Falls, Drift Falls, Stairway Falls
January 2015 — Bridal Veil Falls on Little River
February 2015 — Rainbow Falls trail in deep snow
December 2015 — Grassy Creek Falls in DuPont
April 2015 — Twin Falls & Avery Creek
May 2015 — High Falls on South Fork Mills River
May 2015 — Cove Creek Falls
May 2015 — Greenland Creek Falls
May 2015 — Second Falls in Graveyard Fields
May 2015 — Red Rock Falls
May 2015 — Catawba Falls
June 2015 — Paradise Falls & Upper Sols Creek Falls
July 2015 — Whitewater Falls base hike
October 2015 — Shuck Ridge Creek Falls
November 2015 — Dismal Falls
November 2015 — Wintergreen Falls in DuPont
March 2016 — Big Bradley Falls
May 2016 — Maple Spring Branch & Auger Fork waterfalls
May 2016 — Tuckasegee River Gorge
June 2016 — Stairway Falls and Sidepocket Falls
June 2016 — Graveley Falls
July 2016 — High Falls on West Fork Tuckasegee River
July 2016 — Sols Creek Falls & Flat Creek Falls
August 2016 — High Falls & Big Falls on Thompson River
September 2016 — Yellowstone Falls & Second Falls
September 2016 — Waterfalls of Caney Fork Valley
January 2017 — Wintergreen Falls & Chub Line Falls
March 2017 — Paw Paw waterfalls
March 2017 — Waterfalls of Gragg Prong
March 2017 — South Harper Creek Falls
May 2017 — Waterfalls of Forest Road 475-B
May 2017 — Panthertown Valley west side waterfall loop
June 2017 — Burnthouse Branch Falls
June 2017 — Snowbird Creek waterfalls
June 2017 — Steels Creek Falls
July 2017 — Buckeye Falls
July 2017 — Bearcamp Falls
September 2017 — Waterfalls along upper section of Whitewater River
November 2017 — Cedar Rock Falls & Grogan Creek Falls
December 2017 — High Falls, Triple Falls, Hooker Falls, Grassy Creek Falls
May 2018 — Milton Bradley, Marilou Bradley, Bradley Cooper, & Cavern waterfalls
July 2018 — Balsam Lake & Wolf Creek Waterfalls
September 2018 — Windy Falls
September 2018 — Yellow Fork Falls
September 2018 — English Falls
September 2018 — Still Falls
August 2018 — West Prong Hickey Fork Falls
October 2018 — Middle Prong Falls & Little Beartrap Falls
October 2018 — Bard Falls
November 2018 — Slick Rock Falls
January 2019 — Grogan Creek Falls & Long Branch Falls
February 2019 — Upper Avery Creek Falls
February 2019 — Twin Falls
June 2019 — Waterfalls on Barnett Branch
December 2019 — Reece Place Falls

Brenda J. Wiley

December 2014 — Raven Rock Falls
December 2014 — Falls on Greenland Creek in Panthertown
February 2014 — Kuykendall Creek
December 2013 — Side Pocket Falls
October 2012 — Henson Creek in Linville Gorge
April 2012 — Right Fork & Shuck Ridge Creek
September 2009— Twin Falls, PNF
June 2009 — High Falls on S. Fork Mills River