{"id":744,"date":"2017-09-24T21:41:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T02:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=744"},"modified":"2017-09-26T21:42:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T02:42:15","slug":"chasteen-creek-cascade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"Chasteen Creek Cascade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chasteen Creek is an easy hike in the Smoky Mountains National Park. The easiest approach is from the Smokemont campground. Drive all the way through the campground to the very back where there is parking for about 10-12 cars in front of a gated road. This is the Bradley Fork Trail which follows Bradley Fork upstream. Chasteen Creek Trail is the first right, about 1.2 miles (2 km) in. Just after the turn is backcountry campsite 50 which has good creek access. A half mile or so (~ 1km) up this trail are the cascades.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/chasteen_c1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-740\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/chasteen_c1.jpg\" alt=\"Chasteen Creek Cascades\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/chasteen_c1.jpg 500w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/chasteen_c1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a relatively small set of falls but there is a nice viewing area which would make a good picnic spot on a longer hike (like the Smokemont Loop).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/chasteen_c2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-741\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/chasteen_c2.jpg\" alt=\"Chasteen Creek Cascades\" width=\"281\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/chasteen_c2.jpg 281w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/chasteen_c2-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Campsite 50 is also one of the easiest backcountry sites to reach in the park.\u00a0 Just over a mile each way and relatively flat.\u00a0 There are three fire pits set up there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chasteen Creek is an easy hike in the Smoky Mountains National Park. The easiest approach is from the Smokemont campground. Drive all the way through the campground to the very back where there is parking for about 10-12 cars in front of a gated road. This is the Bradley Fork Trail which follows Bradley Fork &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=744\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chasteen Creek Cascade<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-smoky-mountains-np","category-hiking","category-waterfalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","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=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}