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Hike · Foothills trailhead

Foothills

Distance
11.5 mi
Vertical
1,850 ft
Summit
2,274 ft
Difficulty
Very strenuous

The Foothills Trail is a 76-mile National Recreation Trail across the Blue Ridge Escarpment country of South and North Carolina, running between Table Rock State Park in South Carolina and Oconee State Park near the Georgia line. It passes through the Andrew Pickens Ranger…

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Lake Jocassee at sunset seen from the wooded ridge above, the reservoir that the Foothills Trail skirts on its southern half.
Stanislav Vitebskiy · CC BY 2.0
Upper Whitewater Falls on the North Carolina side, one of the major waterfalls the Foothills Trail passes between Table Rock and Oconee state parks.
Gary Stevens from Asheville NC · CC BY 2.0
A multi-tiered waterfall over moss-and-rhododendron rock above Lake Jocassee, characteristic of the Blue Ridge Escarpment country the Foothills Trail crosses.
CBM · Public domain
A small Foothills Trail cascade tumbles through rhododendron over a boulder field in the Sumter National Forest.
Clemson3564 · Public domain

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