About this spot
Sill Branch Falls sits in the Clark's Creek area of Cherokee National Forest outside Erwin, TN, reached by an easy, well-marked 1-mile round-trip hike with one creek crossing (last stretch of access road is gravel with potholes). No fee. The main drop is roughly 20 feet into a shallow pool at the base -- guides describe it as a wading and photo spot rather than a swimming hole, and the shallow landing makes jumping inadvisable. It's a popular, heavily-trafficked hike (900+ AllTrails reviews) on public land, but no cliff-jumping or swimming-hole culture is documented here.
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