Right off Rt 276, Looking Glass falls is as easy to get to waterfall as I have ever been to. If your ever in western North Carolina and need a quickie waterfall fix this waterfall is for you. Looking Glass Creek is a decent trout stream and as a side note the falls is infamous to the whitewater croud as where noted kayaker Corran Addison ran the falls in the early 90's sustaining a major back injury. Supposedly he was wearing a batman costume while running the drop. Addison is a former olympic kayaker, world champion and nut from everything I've read about him.
Mingo Falls is located in the Qualla Indian Reservation in Cherokee, NC. It's only probably a quarter mile tops to the falls but it is steeep, so be prepared to climb.
At somewhere around 150 feet tall this is a very very impressive waterfall and worth driving thru the gauntlet of hillbilly golf/bingo/rubber tomahawks in Cherokee to see.
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