Meigs Falls

Meigs Falls is viewable roadside within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.  If you’re entering the park from the west side you’ll end up on Little River Gorge Road.  While you can find the falls via Google Maps, you’ll have to keep your eyes open as you actually drive near it because it isn’t immediately obvious from the road.  From the road you’ll be on the west bank of the Little River, there will simply be a wide shoulder pullout area, and Meigs Falls, which terminates Meigs Creek, is across the river on the east side tucked into the trees.  From the road it feels fairly far away.  My camera did not excel at taking a non blurry photo of it, so there won’t be one here.

Pondering if I could cross the Little River and walk up to the base, I concluded that I could, but I’d only just arrived in the park, the water looked shall enough but it would be dam cold, I’d have to spend maybe an hour finding the right place to cross, every car from the road would have probably looked at me like “what the hell dude?” and ultimately the conclusion was that it wasn’t worth it.  I think there may be a trail that runs up behind it starting from elsewhere in the park, but that’ll have to be on my future agenda for a return visit.  That said if it had been the heat of summer when I was there, I kind of feel like people would have been doing this sort of thing daily because the water would be more pleasant.  It does look like a pretty little fall though at a distance.  And that was that as I headed off eastward toward the nearby The Sinks for a different roadside waterfall experience.