About this spot
Mossy Chute Falls is a 30 ft, two-drop waterfall on Buck Creek outside Morganton, part of a well-known creek-walking sequence with Mossy Ledge Falls upstream and Buck Creek Falls/Orange Rock Falls downstream. Hikingwnc.com explicitly calls out "a great swimming hole" at its base, and the broader Buck Creek corridor shows up in regional WNC swimming-hole roundups (WLOS, 828 News Now) — but those pieces cover the creek generally rather than confirming jumps at this specific drop, and access is a hard-plus 5.8-mile creek walk. Real, swimmable-by-description, jump culture still unconfirmed.
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