Falls Park on the Reedy

Sunday morning, we went in to Pickens for breakfast at Village Inn.  The waitresses were really nice and delicious breakfast.  We ended up eating here every morning of our stay.  Then we continued east to Greenville and parked at Falls Park on the Reedy.  We followed the closed road down to the river and first went downstream a short ways to Lower Reedy River Falls.

It's a small 15-foot drop downstream of the main waterfall.

The lighting was unfortunately rather poor, with not a cloud in the sky.  Then we turned around and went upstream to see Reedy River Falls.

The 28-foot waterfall was quite impressive right in the middle of downtown Greenville.

The Liberty Bridge is a unique footbridge over the waterfall with nice views, though it did cast a shadow on the falls.

After crossing the bridge, we headed back to see Arboretum Falls.

It's a small tributary waterfall in a pretty little garden in the park.

After a couple pictures, we continued on Swamp Rabbit Trail following the river downstream.  We went a short ways past the zoo and then turned around since we only had 2 hours of parking.

From here, we went north on US-276 and stopped for lunch at Monterrey Mexican Restaurant.  After 276 merged with SC-11, we continued to Wildcat Wayside and managed to find parking despite being very crowded.  The lighting was poor so we got a picture or two of Wildcat Branch Falls and then continued up the trail.

After crossing the creek, we passed the old chimney, all that remains of Greenville Wayside Park built by the National Park Service.

The creek next to the chimney was scenic.

Just past here, the trail split and we went left, crossing a tributary and then gradually heading up to the base of Upper Wildcat Branch Falls.

It's a really high waterfall with normally low water flow, but was looking nice today.

Continuing on the loop, we next passed Wildcat Branch Tributary Falls.

It's a small sliding waterfall and not real impressive, but the water level was decent today.

After this we finished up the loop.  I walked on the road a quarter-mile or so west to where Slickum Creek crosses under.  The spot is difficult to find and it was easier for Sandy to just drive to me.  After parking, we followed a path into the woods into Eva Russell Chandler Heritage Preserve.

Last Falls on Slickum Creek was a hundred feet from the road, but the area was too dense to see it without making the short hike into the woods.

The lighting was poor, but at least the waterfall was evenly illuminated.  The path continued up the creek another 0.1 miles to a steep scramble down to Sweet Thing.

We were able to get Harper down and she enjoyed checking out the waterfall.

Then we made the short hike back to the road.

From here, we headed back to Pickens.  Ellen invited us to dinner with her and some of the locals down at the library.  The food was really good and Ellen enjoyed spending some time with Harper.