Free Dispersed camping, waterfalls and hiking in the Pisgah national Forest near Morganton, NC

hello folks uh it's memorial day weekend and uh we don't usually come out memorial day weekend because it's so busy but we just couldn't sit around home doing nothing for three whole days um we were playing with the videos and sitting on the youtube channels and stuff like that but uh we had to get out and see how busy it is out here so we're on a little forest road that we haven't been on before and as we're trying to do this little introduction there's been about 30 cars have gone out nobody's come in but there's been pickup trucks with all sorts of toys in the back motorcycles bicycles four-wheelers everything and then there's a whole bunch of um trail motorcycle riders going through two looking like tourists so we're gonna get uh around and see there's supposed to be campsites down here so uh we'll see if that's uh all occupied and everything or if there's room for more on a labor stop hitting my tripod with your sticks get so let's roll the intro and we'll get back on the road and show you what we've got down this little cliff [Music] [Music] [Applause] so this is the dirt road we're coming down i believe it's forest road 409 if you watched last week's video of the falls hike that we took we're just below that on the road well not just below it but about five miles below it and um here's a nice campsite right along this stream uh it's kind of been trashed it's the holiday weekend though it's not so bad to pick up tissues and napkins over people but um this is a it's a small this is uh right next to the stream it's a real small campsite place for a tent and it looks like somebody might have had a tent here um last night but uh like i said there were a whole lot of cars that left as we were standing along the road doing the intro and uh you know this is just a nice clear mountain stream i don't just a little rumbling stream probably really has a good time when it gets uh and it gets a heavy rain up up up the mountain but right now it's and it rains yesterday about an inch so let's go across the street there's another campground campsite we'll go over and look at that one well this is right across the street right across the road this is a big campsite there's a car right here parked i don't know if there's another campsite along the stream but this has two fire rings which is a little weird and it has a piece of cardboard down where somebody must have had a tent because that cardboard be soaked and there's a there's a road that goes back in there i don't know what's way back in here let's take a little walk the only thing is i left my door open and the keys in the car but i don't imagine there are gangs of kids walking through here looking for cars to do well this road apparently goes quite a ways in and there's a tent in there so we won't go in there and bother anybody but it looks like a pretty muddy road so these are free campsites in the national forest and they're easy access really there's it's a little bumpy and a little steep coming down but nothing of all that uh terrible access for so so now we've gone up the road maybe a mile from the last campsite and we come across this campsite which is empty there's four or five campsites in between here and the other campsite but look at this size oh this is a big campsite it was obviously used last night but uh it's got a nice path there's a tent over there next to us with a nice fire going so somebody must abandon this today probably what a nice place though god so people come and go they they get here early and then they get rained on they get out of the out of the woods not any good bathroom facilities nearby but you know there's trails into the woods i see i also see an awful lot of poison ivy the trees are just covered with poison ivy which makes it slightly less appealing but not if you've got a little camper these are great places for little campers it's even got two driveways that was obnoxious we uh stopped on the brown mountain overlook this is as you come up route 181 there's a little pull off parking area picnic area gives you a really nice view of the mountains what do we get going over there got some color over there i don't understand why but we're looking to to hike down in this valley down here i don't know if we're gonna find it or not but we're gonna try one more place see there's some roads over there and some hiking but the nice part about this you can see all the good mountains along the linville gorge um i remember that one but that's hawk spill and table rock is down there and uh so these are the mountains you you hike when you're in the linville gorge and they're pretty nice well we decided to go back to the trail we were on last week and try to see if there were a few less people here it's really pretty cold it's uh below 60. it's in the upper 50s and people are definitely putting on jackets and stuff when they get on the trail and we uh we brought a couple of a wind real light wind breaker and a vest so we shouldn't be cold but of course if you're hiking you're not cold anyways but it's an unusual memorial day for south for north carolina [Applause] anybody want to do a slippy slide no you cannot slide down the liver the falls run ah he's thinking about it he's not sure but he's thinking about it yeah he couldn't help himself he had to get in all right we're climbing up sheer rock and the brat keeps shaking on it and making it wet and slippery so i have it on good authority that this is a trail doesn't really look like a trail it looks like a place that something has walked through the leaves you may have to turn around before we get to the place we want to be you know it's just a beautiful place no matter how you look at it there's just beauty everywhere around every corner it's not everywhere but it's everywhere you just have to look for it well i think we've gone as far as we can go this is just pretty we climbed down the cliff to get down here and we are in the middle of the stream with some big rocks and beautiful area the side of the mountain right here that's dripping water back there you can see that little bird splitting around everywhere this is one neat little area here i think we're gonna take a breather here i'm gonna try to see if we can get up there on the more spacious rocks without killing ourselves i guess we can just follow the stream on the rocks from here he just wants to play in the water let's see where we can go well we're headed back up trail to the car and just so you know it's my belief that these are headstones of people who have died on the trail coming up which i may do any minute now there's a lot of hiking a lot of climbing excuse me been a fun day well folks we're done with this video we had a great hike uh we climbed way up that stream and there are some just beautiful places up there if you ever get to that upper or lower i guess it's upper creek falls there's an upper falls in the lower falls if you go up above the upper falls it's a beautiful area the the path it's not a path it's just it's just a place people have gone through but i'm told you can go all the way up it we only went about maybe a third of the way up but beautiful water beautiful places for uh maybe a quick dip and and nice water and everything so we had a great time akilah just ran his little tail off um so thanks for watching subscribe if you haven't um next week i'm going to rock creek recreation center near irwin tennessee i'll be camped there for uh saturday sunday and monday i believe um probably too late to get you there because i think the reservations were already shut but we'll be exploring that area and we'll have campsites there to to talk about and we'll be looking for free campsites here i hope you enjoyed these free campsites on this video leave me a comment if you liked them if you think you'll ever get there we'll see you on the next video thanks for watching bye [Music] you

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Length: 17min 13sec (1033 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 03 2021