Little Creek Falls
Macon County, North Carolina
Your visit at a glance
- Waterfall height
- Not recorded
- Location
- Macon County, North Carolina
- Access status
- Partial guide: steep bushwhack finish, parking spot not described
- The walk
- About 0.4 miles each way: 0.3 miles on a grassy forest road, then about 0.1 miles off trail
- Ground & access
- Grassy forest road, then a very steep bushwhack through mountain laurel and a steeper bank scramble near the falls.
Little Creek Falls is a long sliding falls ending in a 12-foot drop in a small rhododendron-draped canyon in Nantahala National Forest near Highlands. Walk up the grassy FS 4622 for 0.3 miles to a sharp right switchback (GPS 35.024927, -83.177499). Mini-cliffs lie between the road and the creek, so NC Waterfalls advises leaving from the uphill side of the switchback on an overgrown road, then heading down to the lower drop using the waterfall's coordinates. If you reach sliding water you are too far upstream.
Plan your visit
Forest Road 4622 off Rich Gap Road (FS 401) near Horse Cove, then a steep bushwhack to Little Creek Falls
NC Waterfalls gives an approximate 0.4-mile hike: 0.3 miles up FS 4622 to a sharp right switchback, then about 0.1 miles down to the creek.
Grassy forest road, then a very steep bushwhack through mountain laurel and a steeper bank scramble near the falls.
Where to start
NC Waterfalls gives the turn onto FS 4622, 1.7 miles from Horse Cove on unpaved Rich Gap Road (FS 401), but does not describe where to park. Parking location is not confirmed.
Timing & water
Current conditions not verified.
Before you go
No fee is mentioned in the reviewed source.
Visitor informationVisit sources
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