Log Hollow Falls
Transylvania County, North Carolina
Your visit at a glance
- Waterfall height
- Not recorded
- Location
- Transylvania County, North Carolina
- Access status
- Gated forest road walk; easy
- The walk
- About 1 mile return
- Ground & access
- Easy walk on a gated gravel forest road. Kevin Adams rates it family friendly. The path to the upper falls is steep.
Begin at the gate on Forest Road 5043, on the outside of the curve. At 0.2 miles cross a wide wooden bridge; a side path just before it goes to Discovery Falls. Continue 0.3 miles to a second bridge over Log Hollow Branch. The 38-foot sliding falls is visible from the bridge, and a path just past the bridge climbs a few feet to the base. Return the same way.
Plan your visit
Headwaters Road (FS 475B) curve, gated Forest Road 5043 to the second bridge at Log Hollow Falls
Kevin Adams lists 0.5 miles to the falls (0.2 miles to the first bridge plus 0.3 miles to the second). Waterfall Hero lists 1.2 miles return including the short climb to Upper Log Hollow Falls.
Easy walk on a gated gravel forest road. Kevin Adams rates it family friendly. The path to the upper falls is steep.
Where to start
Outside of a sharp left curve on Headwaters Road (FS 475B), 1.65 miles from US 276, at a large Forest Service interpretive sign. FS 475B leaves US 276 10.3 miles north of the US 64/US 276/NC 280 junction near Brevard. Published coordinates: 35.32641, -82.80176.
Timing & water
No closure is stated. The Forest Service storm-damage page does not name FS 475B among closed Pisgah Ranger District roads.
Before you go
Pisgah National Forest; no fee is stated by the sources. Dogs must be leashed, according to Waterfall Hero.
Visitor informationVisit sources
More waterfalls nearby
Within 40 straight-line miles. Road and trail distances will differ.
Upper Log Hollow FallsForest road walk and steep side path in Pisgah National ForestTransylvania County, NC0.1 miW- Discovery FallsNational forest; forest road and unofficial pathTransylvania County, NC0.2 miN
- Logging Road FallsEasy walk on a gated forest roadTransylvania County, NC0.3 miSW
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- Bennett Cove FallsPublished route on national forest land; informal side pathsTransylvania County, NC0.9 miN
- Mystery FallsTransylvania County, NC1.1 miSE