About this spot
Inside Passage Falls is a roughly 40-foot sliding/cascading waterfall on Ledbetter Creek in Nantahala National Forest, part of the Ledbetter Canyon system, reached via a trailhead across from the Nantahala Outdoor Center on US-19/74 southwest of Bryson City. One detailed source describes hikers swimming and navigating up the drainage through swift slides and shallow pools, but this is single-source and the falls themselves require climbing through a narrow passage to view — not a straightforward access pool. Treat swim/jump culture as plausible but unconfirmed by independent sources; low water flow reportedly makes it unremarkable outside high-water periods.
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