About this spot
Mac's Falls is a small waterfall on Greenland Creek deep in Panthertown Valley (Nantahala National Forest), reached via the Mac's Gap Trail and a rough, partly unmarked stretch of the Greenland Creek Trail. Panthertown is well known for swimming holes, but the documented ones (Schoolhouse Falls, Granny Burrell Falls) are separate, better-visited features elsewhere in the valley — Mac's Falls itself has no specific trip reports describing swimming or jumping there.
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