About this spot
70-ft waterfall in the Big Ivy/Coleman Boundary section of Pisgah National Forest north of Asheville, reached by an easy 0.55-mile trail from Barnardsville. Visitors can walk to the base and even behind the falls. Accounts are mixed on swimming: one visitor review calls it a swimming hole, while another guide says there isn't one -- the base appears to be a shallow rocky basin suited to wading rather than a deep jump pool. Rocks are slick when wet. No cliff-jumping culture documented; verify pool depth before treating this as a jump spot.
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