There are actually two waterfalls here, near Brevard, each on a separate creek. At the overlook, stand at the top of Connestee Falls on Carson Creek. Across the gorge, Batson Creek Falls cascades down to meet Connestee. The now-joined creeks squeeze through a cleft known as Silver Slip, but can’t see it from the upper overlook. Can see Batson Creek Falls pretty well from the overlook, but not Connestee.
Connestee Falls Flowing Water
Batson Creek Falls
People and a dog enjoying the water of Hooker Falls, near Brevard, North Carolina
Sitting by Hooker Falls
Family Enjoying Hooker Falls
Hooker Falls stands only 12 feet high, its wide drop into a pool creates a beautiful setting and an excellent spot for splashing around on hot summer days.
Hooker Falls has been known to residents for years and was named for Edmund Hooker, who operated a mill below the falls in the late 1800s. The Falls were featured in the movie The Last of the Mohicans, where characters in canoes fall over the water.
Hooker Falls
Clear water from the waterfall flows in the creek over the rocks
Flowing Water over the Rocks
Flowing Water
Low water in the Looking Glass Creek reveals the rocks that add a nice foreground to the image of the Looking Glass Falls near Brevard
Rocks by Looking Glass Falls
Rocks in the Foreground by Looking Glass Falls
Looking Glass Falls, near Brevard, is a popular roadside waterfall with a path for close-up views and swimming.
Leading to Looking Glass Falls
Known as the “Land of Waterfalls,” the Brevard area is home to more than 250 waterfalls. We saw only a few and will post photos from there.
An icon of the Pisgah National Forest, Looking Glass Falls is a 60-foot cascade that is visible from the road.
Looking Glass Falls
An interesting wooden sculpture, The Owl of Minerva, by Jamie Green, at the Annual Sculpture Celebration in Lenoir, North Carolina. There is a striking background of a red bridge, a reflection, and a waterfall at the Broyhill Walking Park.
The Owl of Minerva – by Jamie Green
We end the series of images with a tranquil stream and mini-waterfall in the asian section of Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
A Mini Waterfall
It appears that the pillars are supporting the Houston Water Wall but also adding a frame to the waterfall
Houston Water Wall Pillars
A man with a a red shirt definitely adds color to Hickory Nut Falls at Chimney Rock State Park in North Carolina.
Both adults and children can walk the trail to the base of Hickory Nut Falls in Chimney Rock State Park and enjoy the falling water.
Families with small children frequent Hickory Nut Falls at Chimney Rock State Park, North Carolina, as one young explorer is awed by the waterfall and the other one wants to go closer.
Hickory Nut Falls trail’s main destination is to the base of the waterfalls. It is relatively safe to rock-hop and explore the stream right at the base of the falls since it is flat there, but it is generally frowned upon. Adventurers cross the base and even use it as a photo shoot!
Hickory Nut Falls in Chimney Rock State Park, North Carolina is a rather light-flowing and feathery falls flowing through granite rocks. It’s hard to say whether this is a seasonal waterfall or just a light-flowing one that happens to be year-round.
Hickory Nut Falls is a waterfall located at Chimney Rock State Park in North Carolina. The 404-ft. tall Hickory Nut Falls is one of the highest waterfalls east of the Mississippi, made more notable by its appearance in the movie The Last of the Mohicans.
The Fortuna River waterfall in Costa Rica is located in a biological reserve with an area of 210 acres of transition premontane tropical wet forest, part of the Arenal Volcano National Park and is located at 520 meters over the sea level, where there are sources of our mountains and the waters of the Fortuna River. To observe this splendid 70 meters high waterfall, visitors must pass a path of approximately 530 steps, which offers greater security to its passage and comfortable areas for rest and hydration through a forest with native trees of the area.
La Fortuna Waterfall is in central Costa Rica. In Spanish, it is known as Catarata Fortuna. The waterfall drops about 70−75 meters and is at the base of the dormant Chato volcano, near the Arenal. The waterfall is one of the must-see attractions in the La Fortuna area and the waterfall hike, about 500 steps down and then back up, is well worth the effort. Attractive rest stops along the steps allow for necessary respite.
Spectacular rock formations at the Upper Linville Falls, North Carolina
Linville Falls has two sections – Upper and Lower – and can be viewed from four vantage points. Linville Falls thunders through a towering cliff before pooling in a deep, wide basin below the waterfall and flowing downriver through the 12-mile gorge.
