{"id":268,"date":"2009-09-27T20:55:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T01:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2009-09-30T21:08:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T02:08:35","slug":"greenland-creek-and-schoolhouse-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Greenland Creek and Schoolhouse Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Panthertown is a valley in the eastern portion of the Nantahala National Forest, just north of Lake Toxaway. It is not heavily used and this was our first visit to it &#8211; a few days after Toxaway had received more than 10 inches of rain.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_269\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-269\" style=\"width: 436px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-269\" title=\"schoolhouse_falls\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/schoolhouse_falls.jpg\" alt=\"Schoolhouse Falls\" width=\"436\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/schoolhouse_falls.jpg 436w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/schoolhouse_falls-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Schoolhouse Falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The trails in general are not well-signed and there are old trails that are being reclaimed by the forest, new trails that will eventually be official, and then some unofficial trails. It&#8217;s generally a map and compass area. Schoolhouse Falls is easy enough to find however. Almost everyone else we saw in the forest was in the vicinity of Schoolhouse Falls which has a lovely big swimming hole at the base of it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_270\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-270\" style=\"width: 389px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-270\" title=\"greenland_creek\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/greenland_creek.jpg\" alt=\"Greenland Creek Falls\" width=\"389\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/greenland_creek.jpg 389w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/greenland_creek-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greenland Creek Falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>About 2 miles upstream from Schoolhouse is Greenland Creek Falls. The trails go up out of the gorge and connect back with the river about a half mile from the falls. We decided to bushwhack up the river directly. There was an old trail on the east side of the river but portions no longer exist. With high water, this is a strenuous hike that involves almost as much climbing as hiking. There are several more falls along the way. Pothole is the most impressive of these but it involved hanging over the river from branches just to get a glance at it.<br \/>\nThe Greenland Creek Falls trail is not marked but it mostly heads upstream from an old forest road. At high water it involves crossing several tributaries.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_271\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-271\" style=\"width: 433px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-271\" title=\"leaves\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/leaves.jpg\" alt=\"Leaves in Greenland Creek\" width=\"433\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/leaves.jpg 433w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/leaves-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leaves in Greenland Creek<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panthertown is a valley in the eastern portion of the Nantahala National Forest, just north of Lake Toxaway. It is not heavily used and this was our first visit to it &#8211; a few days after Toxaway had received more than 10 inches of rain. The trails in general are not well-signed and there are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=268\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Greenland Creek and Schoolhouse 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":[4,10,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking","category-nantahala-nf","category-orienteering","category-waterfalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","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=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}