{"id":358,"date":"2011-02-13T23:25:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T04:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=358"},"modified":"2011-02-20T23:37:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T04:37:05","slug":"whitewater-silver-run-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Whitewater \/ Silver Run Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These two waterfalls are both short easy hikes just south of Cashiers.<\/p>\n<p>Whitewater Falls is one of the highest in the eastern US.  There is a separate parking and picnic area for it now and it&#8217;s about a quarter mile hike to an overlook of the falls.   A separate overlook further down towards the Foothills Trail offers a better, unimpeded view.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-359\" style=\"width: 434px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/whitewater_falls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-359\" title=\"whitewater_falls\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/whitewater_falls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/whitewater_falls.jpg 434w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/whitewater_falls-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whitewater Falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A less obvious wayside waterfall is Silver Run Falls.  There is a very small pullout next to a National Forest sign for the falls.  Again, it&#8217;s only about a quarter mile to this small falls.  There is a high quantity of mica in the rocks and the water around this falls so if the sun is out, it&#8217;s a pretty impressive effect.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_360\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-360\" style=\"width: 437px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/silver_run.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-360\" title=\"silver_run\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/silver_run.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/silver_run.jpg 437w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/silver_run-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silver Run Falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two waterfalls are both short easy hikes just south of Cashiers. Whitewater Falls is one of the highest in the eastern US. There is a separate parking and picnic area for it now and it&#8217;s about a quarter mile hike to an overlook of the falls. A separate overlook further down towards the Foothills &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=358\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Whitewater \/ Silver Run 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":[4,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking","category-nantahala-nf","category-waterfalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","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=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}