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High Falls (DuPont State Park)

DuPont State Forest, North Carolina, USA

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High Falls was the last of three waterfalls (though it have been four with Bridal Veil Falls given a little more time) on the Little River we visited in DuPont State Forest.

This one was probably the most impressive of the three we saw though they were all very different from each other. It was also said to be 125ft coming down in one large trapezoidal cascade. I believe the bridge that’s partially seen in the photo above was the Covered Bridge.

We hiked about 0.5 miles (one mile round trip) to this waterfall from the High Falls Access car park, where we followed a very wide gravel road (Buck Forest Rd; no public vehicle traffic allowed) then went downhill towards trailside views of the falls. It turned out that the Buck Forest Rd continued on towards Bridal Veil Falls another 2.2 miles away, I believe.

In an effort to check out the falls from closer to its base, I continued to descend downhill along the main trail past the views of the falls. A few minutes later, I was able to junction with the River Bend Trail, which was the trail I took to get closer to the base of the falls. However, the official trail ended well before I was able to get decent views so I did have to scramble a bit on some minor sloping and slippery slabs of rock.

I wasn’t sure if the trail I took was the best way to get closer to the base of High Falls, because the sign at the start of the River Bend Trail spur was misleading in that the arrow for the falls was pointing away from the direction of the falls itself (i.e. further downstream).

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