A companion page for my photoblog website, which contains over 500 hiking trip reports. Still playing around with ideas so it's hard telling what might show up next.
Hi dw, Heading here in early June. Do you recall any places along the way to this spot for camping? or near the waterfall? I understand it to be a fairly short hike from the trailhead, maybe 2 miles or so. I appreciate any info. Thanks! Anthony
Actually it's just a short bushwhack if you know where you're headed. It's just downstream from the portion of the falls seen from the viewing platform.
Yes I would take a caravan of people here every year from ATL going to various VW bus shows in the mountains. One year the last year we went before it was closed the water was knee deep and moving very fast. I didn't want to go but I always went first to show the route. So I did. Hit the pool and swam for my life before drifting down the rocky creek.. Then of course gave the thumbs up for the rest to go down. No doubt his is the REAL BUST AS FALLS! Thank you for posting all of our footage is lost.
The real Bust your Butt falls! I remember this as the legendary falls that our camp counselors went to when I was at Camp Carolina in 1989. Too bad that it's illegal to go now. This is too awesome to be private property.
It's spelled "Gravely".... I own adjacent property and have been going to this waterfall for years and years....sorry to see it's been discovered.... but that's how it goes. The Gravely family pioneered that area and there's a gravesite near the main road...
This is near my great, great, great grandfather's hunt camp, which was known as "King's Camp," then later "Barton's Field." Samuel King Jr. was a longhunter in the area now known as Pisgah National Forest near Brevard, NC in the late 1790s and early 1800s. The camp was about 200 yards upstream from this falls.
