Waterrock Knob Trail is located at Milepost 451.2. The elevation here is about 5800 feet at the parking lot and over 6000 feet at the summit. The trail has two stop point. One is the pedestrian overlook at 0.21 mile and the other is the Waterrock Knob at 0.5 mile. It's easy from parking lot to the ped overlook with a paved trail. But hiking from the overlook to the Knob is quite difficult. You'll walk along a "stream" trail and sometimes you have to climb up. But we like here. We felt here special and beautiful (after our visit of Great Smoky Mountain). The experience of hiking on the trail is wonderful.
The view from the trail
The view from the ped overlook to the parking lot
From this picture, you should know why it's called "waterrock" trail. Water streamed down through the trail.
We started at 5:30pm. It became misty soon.
Heavy mist led to a difficulty to identify the route. There are many Y-shaped intersections which making it easy to get lost on the trail especially with heavy mist (we almost got lost). Be careful in this situation.
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