Waterfalls 1 - North Carolina - Day 4 - To Dillard

Another waterfall day through the mountains.  Hotels have been nice. The one in Brevard did not have breakfast, so we had to go out but that's okay, Brevard is a touristy town so plenty of places to eat. 
Started by taking 64 south to 281 (Whitewater Road).

This photo is what I like about small towns....they are so cute in their decorations.

Brevard

Today is a little bit of north south driving to cover many many waterfalls.

Go from east to west on red line

White Owl Falls: This was crazy! First finding the place to stop was not clear and then the hike inside was not marked. I think these falls are for the die hard hikers. I was not willing to get lost or twist my ankle here so we skipped this. Although photos show it to be a beautiful falls, but for me its not worth it if trail is not clear.  

Whitewater Falls: $3: 0.5 mi hike. This was a proper state park hence the entry fee - but it is on honor system. There was a large parking lot. The hike was all paved and part of it was wooden stairs. The falls were really fantastic. I could put a chair out and just admire them!

Whitewater Falls

From there it was south and north to 130 south to state road S-37-413 (cuts to 107 north)
 
Silver Run Falls – A short hike to the falls. A forest service sign along the road marks the small roadside parking area for 4-5 cars. It's a nice falls. Water was nice and cool. Totally swimmable.

Silver Run Falls

This leads us to Cashiers. One can have food there. But we were full so we went up 64 towards Highland (tourist town) and up north for some falls.
 
Sequoya Falls  –  This is actually on a dam. We did not see a parking lot but roadside parking was okay. Not much to see except to stop, click and move on.

Sequoya Falls

Bridal Veil Falls – This is directly on the road. Just park and take photos. And one can walk in it, around it or not. There is so little water that it hardly qualifies as a waterfall, but water is falling! 

Bridal Veil Falls

Dry Falls – There is a parking area for this and then a short walk to the falls. There was a bit of a crowd here. Falls were with lots of water and looked and sounded great. One can walk behind the falls and get view from the other side too. Really like it to get close and personal with the falls :

Bust Your Butt Falls – They are visible from the road. The reason for the name is that you can slip on them! (about 3 miles from dry falls).

Bust Your Butt Falls

Glenn Falls - This is on a dirt road from 106 off Highlands Hwy 64. There is not a lot of parking as it is a bit of a hike kind of falls. We were tired but we had time, so we squeezed in one more waterfall. And how lovely this was except for all the downhill and climb up! It is a three tier water falls. Go down to point A and get a lovely view, then down more to point B and then another maybe half mile for point C which is the bottom. One does not get view of point A from B. So its like three different waterfalls. The hike is at a bit of grade, but its a nice maintained trail so quite doable. The waterfalls were pretty but could use a bit more water :-)

End of the day!! Get back S on 64 to 106 S -> 246 -> 23 S to Dillard.

To leave this day without mentioning that the drive was quite pretty is to do injustice. The mountains, the wildflowers were everywhere. Although it was getting hot by the afternoon, but it was still quite a pleasant day to be outdoors.

 The last couple days were quite uneventful. We stopped at BAPs, Atlanta and stopped in Gainsville, Florida and then drove back home. Two days of waterfalls were quite nice. And of course Florida sunset on the waters....