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Beech Bottom Falls

Pickens County, South Carolina

Your visit at a glance

Waterfall height
Not recorded
Location
Pickens County, South Carolina
Access status
Built state trail with signed parking and observation deck
The walk
About 1.7 miles round trip (Kidding Around Greenville); SC Trails lists about 1 mile one way
Ground & access
Gravel roadbed, then a narrow natural-surface trail with footbridges, steps and steep drop-offs. Muddy and slippery after rain. No cell service.
SC Trails: Beech Bottom Falls Trail

Beech Bottom Falls, formerly called Pinnacle Falls, is a tall multi-tiered falls in the Jocassee Gorges area near Sunset, reached by a nature trail built by the SC Department of Natural Resources. From the parking area, walk north on the old roadbed and gravel road past the gate; the trail heads west on the old roadbed about 400 feet north of the lot. After about half a mile it crosses Abner Creek on a footbridge, then turns left onto another old roadbed following signs to Beech Bottom Falls, recrosses the creek on a second footbridge, and descends to the observation deck. Stay on the trail. Return the same way.

Plan your visit

Beech Bottom Falls Trail parking on F. Van Clayton Memorial Highway, old roadbed and footbridges over Abner Creek to the observation deck

Kidding Around Greenville gives 1.7 miles round trip to the viewing platform with about 300 feet of elevation gain. SC Trails lists the trail as about 1.00 mile one way.

Gravel roadbed, then a narrow natural-surface trail with footbridges, steps and steep drop-offs. Muddy and slippery after rain. No cell service.

Where to start

Signed Beech Bottom Falls Trail parking area on the left of F. Van Clayton Memorial Highway, on the way up to Sassafras Mountain, 1.5 miles north of the junction with US 178 in Rocky Bottom. The lot is also the Chimneytop Gap access to the Foothills Trail.

Timing & water

No season limits are stated.

Before you go

SC Trails lists no fee.

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

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Pickens County, South Carolina.

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