Double Branch Falls

Transylvania County, North Carolina

Your visit at a glance

Waterfall height: Not recorded
Location: Transylvania County, North Carolina
Access status: Partial guide: off trail approach with no path; most recent account is from 2017
The walk: About 0.6 mile return
Ground & access: Gated forest road then off trail through the woods. A large fallen tree at the base blocks views. Waterfall Hero rates it difficult.

Waterfall Hero: Double Branch Falls (Pisgah)

Walk up gated FR 9999 for a little under a quarter mile to where the road starts downhill at a clearing with a campsite and bends sharply right. Leave the road on the left and bushwhack southeast toward the sound of falling water to the base of the falls. Return the same way.

Plan your visit

FR 9999 off Tanasee Gap Road to Double Branch Falls

Waterfall Hero gives 0.6 miles for the walk; Rich Stevenson gives just over a quarter mile each way. About a quarter mile is on the forest road and the rest is off trail.

Gated forest road then off trail through the woods. A large fallen tree at the base blocks views. Waterfall Hero rates it difficult.

Where to start

Pull-off at the gated FR 9999 on the left of Tanasee Gap Road, 4.6 miles from NC 215 (NC 215 is 8.7 miles north of US 64 or 8.3 miles south of the Blue Ridge Parkway). Do not block the gate. Waterfall Hero gives GPS 35.21293, -82.93822.

Timing & water

Open year round. Rich Stevenson's visit was in 2004 and Waterfall Hero's in August 2017.

Before you go

No fee reported. Pisgah National Forest, Pisgah Ranger District.

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More waterfalls nearby

Within 40 straight-line miles. Road and trail distances will differ.

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Waterfall location

Transylvania County, North Carolina.

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