Mark's Photo Travels

Back in February, I visited Todd Creek Falls and Waldrop Stone Falls in the Clemson Experimental Forest near Six Mile in Pickens County. This week I found the time to visit a few more points of interest in the same area. First was a visit to a waterfall on a tributary of Todd Creek. The parking area for this waterfall is on the south side of Brookbend Road , a short distance west of a bridge over Todd Creek. Get directions to the parking area  with Google Maps . The road is gated with metal cable. Park on either side, and please do not block the road. I followed the directions to the waterfall in this PDF of a student slideshow. Walk down the road, through a meadow. At the end of the meadow, the trail will fork. Take the right fork. Just before the road goes over a culvert, you should see a plainly visible trail heading left. You should also clearly hear the waterfall. Follow the short trail to the base of the waterfall. The part that goes to the ba...

I had taken some time off last week, and used one day to walk the Doodle Trail, and then the next day to chose explore some of the waterfalls of Pickens County, SC. My travels would take me back through Easley then through Liberty, Central, and Norris to two waterfalls in the Clemson Experimental Forest near Six Mile. My first waterfall was Todd Creek Falls . The tiny parking area for the waterfall is on the east side of a bridge over Todd Creek on Brookbend Road. I estimate there's room for two cars here. Directly overhead are Duke Energy transmission lines. The unmarked trailhead is directly across the road from the parking area. On the other side of the bridge is a dirt road, but with a large hole dug out to prevent motor vehicles from using it. You can reach the waterfall from this road, but it's far easier to stick with the trail. The trail is easy enough to follow for now, but in the summertime I imagine the vegetation would make following a bit harder. The po...