The Great Outdoors: DuPont State Forest, NC

This place is AMAZING! It's between Brevard and Henderson, NC.. I'd say close to 10 minutes or so from mom and dad's house. Like a hidden treasure in the mountains that you'd never know unless you were looking for it. MASSIVE waterfalls throughout these trails and the coolest thing is, you can actually walk up to them. Most if not all places in GA have decks that restrict you from getting too close to the waterfalls. North Carolina is different. And it's cool!

Here's our hiking crew. We went up the weekend of Halloween and got there in prime leaf changing time. So beautiful up there. Here we are overlooking one set of falls.

To get an idea of the size of these falls, look dead center of them and you can see a person standing in the middle of them.

Here's us in the middle section of this set of falls. People actually go and swim around in them too.

Here's a whole other set of falls with a covered bridge at the top.

The water was splashing down so hard that you walk away from there wet.

In fact, you can see and feel the mist from here and I'd guess we were about 50 yards away from the base.

Also, even though you can walk up to the falls, be careful where you step because the rocks are very slippery.

Walking up and past these falls is an old covered bridge. The horse and bike trails connect here and we lucked out to see several horse riders here taking a break.