Glassmine Falls

Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina, USA

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Glassmine Falls is a thin waterfall seen right off the Blue Ridge Parkway. It’s said to be ephemeral and we can see why even though we saw it flowing.

There’s a sign by the car park for the overlook of this falls proudly proclaiming it’s 800ft. Generally, we’d make a big deal out of waterfalls this tall, but given its fickle nature and how it almost blends into the scenery it’s a part of, I’m only including a writeup of it since it has been given such infrastructure for easy visitation.

The overlook area extends towards the top of a hill, but I don’t think the view is all that different up there.

Whether you see water in this waterfall or not is dependent on how soon you visit after a significant rainfall event has occurred. Wait too long, and this falls disappears and reveals only the bare rock over which it plunges. I can only speculate that perhaps the last rain event that revived this waterfall was three or four days prior to our visit.

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