Mitchell Falls

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**Mitchell's Falls, 1859**


Location	Blue Ridge Mountains, Yancey County, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°46′26″N 82°17′01″W / 35.773945, -82.283653
Type	Slide
Total height	25 ft (7.6 m)

Mitchell Falls is a 25-foot waterfall located on private property on the slope of Mount Mitchell, the highest mountain in the Appalachian Mountain chain. Both the falls and the mountain are named for Elisha Mitchell, a professor who attempted to prove the mountain was indeed the highest, when he fell over a rocky ledge above the falls to his death on June 27,1857^[1].

1 Visiting the Falls
2 Confusion
3 Nearby Falls
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Visiting the Falls

The falls is located on private property. Access to the falls is normally prohibited although access has been allowed in the past to groups on a special permission basis. As the landowner has been a strong, environmentally-conscious steward for the tract of land on which the falls lies, people wishing to visit the falls are highly encouraged to respect this wait until such a trip is organized and not to trespass in an attempt to see the falls.

[edit] Confusion

Image of Mitchell Falls from 1859 Book

There is some confusion as to which waterfall in the area is actually Mitchell Falls. The Kevin Adams book North Carolina Waterfalls misidentified the falls from mislabeled photographs by George Masa and Rufus Morgan. The author has since updated his website with the corrected information^[2]. The 45-foot falls listed in the Adams book were the falls photographed by George Masa. All three falls, Mitchell Falls, the falls photographed by George Masa, and the falls photographed by Rufus Morgan, are all on private property.