{"id":682,"date":"2015-12-12T20:47:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T01:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=682"},"modified":"2015-12-16T20:54:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T01:54:21","slug":"raven-cliff-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"Raven Cliff Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raven Cliff Falls tumbles over the Blue Ridge escarpment just on the South Carolina side of the NC\/SC border. It&#8217;s located in the Mountain Bridge Wilderness Area and there are dozens of trails interconnected through this area including the long distance Palmetto and Foothills trails.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_684\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-684\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rcfalls2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-684\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rcfalls2.jpg\" alt=\"Raven Cliff Falls \" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rcfalls2.jpg 500w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rcfalls2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raven Cliff Falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There is a suspension bridge over the falls (too far away to see here) but that is a strenuous 7 mile loop hike with a lot of altitude change. On this hike we came in from the parking area on US 276 which is about a mile south of the NC border. There are several trails out of that parking area. The one across the road (west) is the Raven Cliff Falls trail. There are a couple major junctions along the way but they are well signed. It&#8217;s 2.2 miles (3.7km) each way.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_683\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-683\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rcfalls1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-683\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rcfalls1.jpg\" alt=\"Raven Cliff Falls\" width=\"281\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rcfalls1.jpg 281w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rcfalls1-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raven Cliff Falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That leads to a nice wooden overlook which includes a covered pavilion with benches. We did this hike in December so visibility was great, I&#8217;m not sure how much can be seen in mid-Summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raven Cliff Falls tumbles over the Blue Ridge escarpment just on the South Carolina side of the NC\/SC border. It&#8217;s located in the Mountain Bridge Wilderness Area and there are dozens of trails interconnected through this area including the long distance Palmetto and Foothills trails. There is a suspension bridge over the falls (too far &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=682\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Raven Cliff Falls<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking","category-waterfalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}