North CarolinaNC Waterfalls

Glady Fork enters Catheys Creek a short distance upstream from Catheys Creek Falls and just downstream from Upper Shoals. Just upstream on Glady Fork is a two-tier waterfall, each section around 20 feet high. Several years ago, there was a sign here (I don’t know if it’s still there) calling it Grace Falls.

In The Land of Waterfalls, Jim Bob Tinsley mentions Upper Shoals and says that waterfall was renamed Grace Falls by the owner to honor his wife.¹³⁸ It appears that the Grace Falls Tinsley refers to is the falls on Glady Fork rather than Upper Shoals on Catheys Creek. Perhaps he was misinformed about which of the two waterfalls was called Grace Falls. Or, maybe Upper Shoals was called Grace Falls at one time and the name was later applied to the falls on Glady Fork, although that doesn’t seem likely. At any rate, the waterfall on Glady Fork is private and inaccessible to the public.

These waterfalls are a few miles west of Brevard.