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June 2011 Road Trip
Skyline Drive/Peaks of Otter: [Day 1/2]
BRP (to Lenoir, NC): [Day 3]
BRP (Mt. Mitchell): [Day 4]
BRP (Graveyard Fields): [Day 5]
Route Map: [Route][all maps]
Day 5 (Mon Jun 27): BRP (Graveyard Fields)

Day's Summary: Graveyard Fields, then home.

Graveyard Fields: Hiking To Falls

Along the Blue Ridge Parkway, Graveyard Fields might be so named because of a windstorm that knocked down trees into gravelike configurations. Hiking to the Second Falls.

Graveyard Fields: Second Falls

This is Second Falls. Graveyard Fields contains three falls: Upper Falls, Second Falls, and Yellowstone Falls. Yellowstone Falls is downstream from here, unmarked on the trailhead map (near the parking lot) downstream, and apparently a little harder to reach.

Graveyard Fields: Second Falls

View of Second Falls. I film a 360 degree panorama.

Blue Ridge Parkway: Cowee Mountains Overlook

My pal Landon and I took some pictures and enjoyed the view.

Blue Ridge Parkway: Mile 469

A view of mile marker 469 near the Oconaluftee River.