Best Asheville Waterfalls

This is a guide to waterfalls near Asheville for visitors after a big view without a long hike. Most sit in Pisgah National Forest near Brevard and in DuPont State Recreational Forest around Cedar Mountain, with Graveyard Fields on the Blue Ridge Parkway and Upper Whitewater Falls on the Jackson-Transylvania county line. Looking Glass Falls, about 60 feet tall, is visible right from US 276 and has a roadside viewing deck. Moore Cove Falls is an easy trail of about 0.7 miles each way, with three footbridge crossings, to a 50-foot drop. In DuPont, Hooker Falls is a half-mile round trip from its lot, and High Falls drops about 150 feet at the end of a roughly 1.2-mile round trip.

Treat Upper Whitewater, about an hour and 20 minutes away, as a day trip. Rocks are slippery at every falls, so never climb or wade above the drop.