Destination: Brevard, North Carolina

This part of the world is known as “Land of the Waterfalls“. With a name like that how can you not want to visit and explore? We needed a stop halfway between Baltimore and Pensacola that was not too far off the route and we chose this area as it sounded like a great place for a stopover. The weather was gorgeous for winter, 60 and sunny. It was a small town nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina in Transylvania County. (for official information on Brevard>>)

I loved the area. I have been here several years ago to mountain bike a trail called Eastern Slick Rock and it was a top ten ride for sure. This whole area is legendary for mountain biking, but even more so for the waterfalls.

We first hit the small and quaint downtown Brevard that seemed straight from a Rockwell painting. It had an amazing Toy Store, O.P. Taylor’s, that we had to check out. The toy story alone is worth the side track, they dont call it the “Coolest Toy Store on the Planet” for nothing. We then ate lunch at a really cool Irish pub and restaurant, Dugan’s Pub. They served locally brewed beer and fish and chips. Perfect! While in there we mapped out a few waterfalls to go photograph and show Nora. Nora loves waterfalls.

But Nora was pretty tired and it was approaching nap time, so we headed towards the first waterfall and located a great picnic area in the forest on the way there and we put Nora down for a nap There was a fast flowing stream that was running next to us and the sound was intoxicating.and took small ones ourselves after letting the dogs explore a bit.

After waking up the waterfall was just a few miles down the road. The drive itself was great. The road was winding but well paved. The stream was tumbling along side the whole way. We were rather amazed at the size of the waterfall we got to. There was a lot of water roaring over it and it was quite high. VEry impressive for being right next to a road.

We didnt have much time to hang around as it was time to be on our way. We were all ready to get home.

We plan on making this stop over be a few days next time and really check out all the area has to offer. It was gorgeous up there.
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