Gorges State Park, North Carolina.
This is waterfall country. The Blue Ridge Escarpment coincides here with the Eastern Continental Divide and also an alpine rain forest where warm air moving northeast from the Gulf of Mexico hits its first real mountains.
There are so many waterfalls here that no one knows how many there are. There are so many that no one knows how many there are even just inside Gorges State Park.
There are so many waterfalls here that when I bought my house, after we had closed, at the very last meeting where the former owners were turning over the keys, they mentioned in passing that there was a waterfall here on the property. "There is a waterfall on the property" never even came up in the listing, in the sales meetings, in the negotiations, just kind of at the end as an aside they pointed out that we now owned one.
On NC 107 north of Cashiers there is a beautiful one that is only visible from the road when the leaves are off the trees. It's tall and long, divides into two sections and then comes back together for a single broad fall down a rock face. Anywhere else they'd have built a park just to look at it. Here, there's not even a pull-off along the highway so you can stop to view the thing.
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You're talking about the falls just south of the powerhouse, I assume.
If that's the one, then notice between the falls and the powerhouse the large rock face on the waterfall side, is where there was a huge land slide back in the mid 70's. To get to Glenville or Cashier's, you could either go up Cullowhee MTN road, or bear right up Wilson's Creek and go over the mountain through Ellijay to get to US 64..
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