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Triple Falls (DuPont State Forest)

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Visitors may park at the Hooker Falls parking area, and then hike the Triple Falls / High Falls Trail for roughly 0.5 miles (0.80 km). There are 2 views of the falls, one of the base, where you can only see the bottom falls, and a second upper overlook that lets you view the entire falls.
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Triple Falls has been known for years to local residents. In the 1990s, DuPont Forest was sold to the State of North Carolina, and as DuPont has completed cleanup of various areas, those areas have been made open to the public. A
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of Triple Falls was one of the tools used to convince the state to purchase the property, which is now a 10,000-acre (4,047 ha) state forest.
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As with all waterfalls, visitors are strongly discouraged from climbing the rocks near the falls. There have been many deaths at Triple Falls.
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Waterfall in Transylvania County, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina
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DuPont State Forest may also allow access to the falls by vehicle to
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persons. Contact the DuPont State Forest for more information.
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The waterfall was also featured in a scene in the movies
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Protected areas of Transylvania County, North Carolina
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Triple Falls (North Carolina)
Triple Falls (California)

DuPont State Forest
Transylvania County
Blue Ridge Mountains
North Carolina
Coordinates
35°11′54″N 82°37′01″W / 35.19839°N 82.61683°W / 35.19839; -82.61683
Type
waterfall
DuPont State Forest
Brevard, North Carolina
Little River
Transylvania County
High Falls
Hooker Falls
Bridal Veil Falls
photograph
handicapped
High Falls
Hooker Falls
Bridal Veil Falls
Wintergreen Falls
Connestee Falls and Batson Creek Falls
Key Falls
Glen Cannon Falls
Turley Falls
The Last of the Mohicans
The Hunger Games

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