Place of a Thousand Drips

Near marker 15 on the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, you’ll find the Place of a Thousand Drips.  This is a roadside waterfall, in fact a collection of micro waterfalls occurring next to this one little section of road.  If you zoom into the picture here you’ll spot water in all sorts of place, and this is just one angle of the cliff walls there where water is coming out of everywhere.  Sort of a waterfall, but also sort of like a super crazy charged bunch of seeps.

This was the last thing I visited on the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail since it is a one way loop and I started with Rainbow Falls, then Grotto Falls.  I might have easily missed this if I wasn’t trying hard to find it, and that marker 15 helped as well.  I did however notice there was a company with bright pink Jeeps giving tours of the motor trail and they were at least slowing down to let people look at the Place of a Thousand Drips, so that was an additional help in spotting it, seeing where others were going.  After this point on the trail, you’re spit back out to Gatlinburg, TN.