About this spot
Whitetail Falls is one of a tight cluster of small, largely unphotographed cascades on the Kings Creek/Fawn Branch drainage behind John Rock in Pisgah National Forest, near the better-known Warrior Falls, Bambi Falls, and Fawn Branch Falls. No maintained trail reaches it; access is off-trail bushwhacking over slick creek rock. It is on public Forest Service land, but no independent write-up, photo, or swim/jump report was found beyond catalog listings.
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