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🚴Cycling Backpacks - Backpacks for cyclists

🔋Solar Power Banks - Charge your phone and GPS using the sun while deep in the bush

🛌Compact Down Sleeping Bags - Warmth without the bulk, ideal for backcountry camping

📱Tablet Tripod Mounts - Steady platforms for viewing digital maps or taking long exposures

📚Map Reading & Navigation Guides - Master the art of interpreting topographic contours and symbols

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Catawba Falls River Trail in Pisgah National Forest trails

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Catawba Falls River Trail in Pisgah National Forest

United States > North Carolina > McDowell County

The Catawba Falls Trail offers a scenic journey through Pisgah National Forest, guiding hikers along a gentle riverside path rich with historic stonework, lush vegetation, and streams that punctuate the quiet, wooded landscape. About halfway up, hikers encounter a historic dam that forms a small waterfall,…

Distance: 4.0 Km • Elevation gain: 205 m • Maximum elevation: 695 m