About this spot
A roughly 40-foot, two-drop waterfall on Thompson Creek reached via FR1206 (Yellow Gap Road), a single-lane gravel forest road popular with mountain bikers north of Brevard in Pisgah National Forest. Documented on the HikingWNC waterfall list as a real but not-easy-to-reach falls whose appearance varies heavily with rainfall. No source mentions swimming, jumping, or a maintained trail to the base; this reads as a bushwhack photography target rather than a swimming hole. Satellite imagery over the pin shows dense canopy consistent with the described remote setting.
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