Yellow Creek Falls Trail

North Carolina

North Carolina

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0.3 mi

Distance

385 ft

Gain

16 min

Time

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What we do know

  • Inside National Forests in North Carolina

    2 managing-area boundaries mapped — agency alerts for them feed this page automatically.

    Boundary data

What's missing

  • No access route mapped

    We don't yet know which road reaches this trailhead, so we can't tell you if it's gated.

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Quick trip — under 2 mi
Out & back

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Elevation & route

Distance
0.3 mi
Elevation gain
385 ft
Elevation loss
385 ft
Highest point
1,734 ft
Lowest point
1,482 ft
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About this trail

Yellow Creek Falls Trail is a short out-and-back hike in North Carolina covering 0.68 miles with 385 feet of elevation gain. The trail reaches a maximum elevation of 1,734 feet.

Facts about this trail

The climb

Starts at
1,482 ft
High point
1,734 ft
Total climbing
385 ft
Total descent
385 ft
Steepest stretch
21% grade around mile 0.2 on the way out
Length (round trip)
0.7 mi
Shape
Out and back

Most of the climbing comes early, so the second half is easier.

Source: Roamze elevation profile and trail geometry (DEM samples along the mapped route)

Where it is

Source: USFS EDW boundaries

Conditions

Active alerts for National Forests in North Carolina as of Oct 9, 2026:

Source: USFS forest alerts

Nearby

Source: Roamze catalog (indexable pages within 10 miles, PostGIS distance)

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