Evans Falls
Greenville County, South Carolina
Your visit at a glance
- Waterfall height
- Not recorded
- Location
- Greenville County, South Carolina
- Access status
- Partial guide: no official trail; old road and an overgrown logging grade
- The walk
- No distance is published
- Ground & access
- Overgrown old roads, thick rhododendron, faint paths and steep, muddy slopes. Expect some bushwhacking.
Evans Falls is on Oil Camp Creek in the Mountain Bridge Wilderness Area, a short distance from Misty Falls beside an old logging road. A visitor account describes parking at a pull-off near where old Oil Camp Creek Road leaves US 276, walking down the old road past a green gate and down its switchbacks, then following a hard-to-see old logging road to Misty Falls and on to Evans Falls. A second visitor account reached Oil Camp Creek and followed it to Evans Falls. No official trail reaches the falls. Return the same way.
Plan your visit
Pull-off on US 276 near old Oil Camp Creek Road, down the old road and an overgrown logging grade to Evans Falls
The visitor accounts give no measured distance for this approach.
Overgrown old roads, thick rhododendron, faint paths and steep, muddy slopes. Expect some bushwhacking.
Where to start
A pull-off on US 276 a short distance from the intersection with old Oil Camp Creek Road, per a visitor account, which also mentions a parking area a few hundred feet down the old road. Exact spot and capacity are not stated.
Timing & water
Low-flow falls that look best after rain, per a visitor account. The old road can be very overgrown in summer.
Before you go
No fee is mentioned.
Visitor informationVisit sources
More waterfalls nearby
Within 40 straight-line miles. Road and trail distances will differ.
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- Firewater FallsState park trail passes the falls; trail access feeGreenville County, SC0.9 miNW
- Cliff FallsState park trail route and parking documented; trail feeGreenville County, SC1.1 miNW
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