{"id":244,"date":"2009-07-12T22:13:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T03:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=244"},"modified":"2009-07-21T22:22:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T03:22:32","slug":"toms-springs-falls-and-catheys-creek-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Toms Springs Falls and Catheys Creek Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These two falls are located in the southwestern part of the Pisgah Ranger District. Toms Springs Falls, besides being hard to pronounce has about 4 other names depending on the map you use. It&#8217;s not particularly difficult to get to, there&#8217;s a trailhead a bit west of the fish hatchery and it&#8217;s a half mile hike along an old forest road to the falls. It&#8217;s fairly impressive but there&#8217;s not really a good spot to sit at the base of it or swim in a pool.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_245\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-245\" style=\"width: 324px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-245\" title=\"toms_springs_falls\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/toms_springs_falls.jpg\" alt=\"Toms Springs Falls\" width=\"324\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/toms_springs_falls.jpg 324w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/toms_springs_falls-267x300.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toms Springs Falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Catheys Creek Falls is located right along side Catheys Creek Road.  There are a series of cascades visible if you walk along the precipitous edge of the road and peer over.  Well below most of the drops there&#8217;s a tiny pull-off, big enough for one car and a goat path leading down to the river.   This picture is just the bottom section of the falls, most of it is not visible here.  We couldn&#8217;t find a decent vantage point of the whole thing.  Trout was disappointed to discover that Catheys Creek isn&#8217;t a good spot for swimming either.  There&#8217;s a small pool here but more rocky drops just below it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-246\" style=\"width: 441px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/catheys_creek_falls.jpg\" alt=\"Catheys Creek Falls\" title=\"catheys_creek_falls\" width=\"441\" height=\"318\" class=\"size-full wp-image-246\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/catheys_creek_falls.jpg 441w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/catheys_creek_falls-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catheys Creek Falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two falls are located in the southwestern part of the Pisgah Ranger District. Toms Springs Falls, besides being hard to pronounce has about 4 other names depending on the map you use. It&#8217;s not particularly difficult to get to, there&#8217;s a trailhead a bit west of the fish hatchery and it&#8217;s a half mile &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=244\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toms Springs Falls and Catheys Creek Falls<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking","category-pisgah-nf","category-waterfalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}