Moravian Falls

Moravian Falls
Moravian Falls
	Moravian Falls, Moravian Falls, NC
Location	Moravian Falls Campground, Moravian Falls, Wilkes County, in North Carolina
Coordinates	36°05′11″N81°11′25″W / 36.086286°N 81.190295°W
Type	Cascade and Slide
Total height	42 ft (13 m) [1]

Last updated April 25, 2019

Moravian Falls is a waterfall in Wilkes County, North Carolina.

Wilkes County is a county located in the US state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 69,340. In May 2016, the population is almost 69,000. Its county seat is Wilkesboro, and its largest town is North Wilkesboro. Wilkes County comprises the North Wilkesboro, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area.

North Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. It borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. North Carolina is the 28th-most extensive and the 9th-most populous of the U.S. states. The state is divided into 100 counties. The capital is Raleigh, which along with Durham and Chapel Hill is home to the largest research park in the United States. The most populous municipality is Charlotte, which is the second-largest banking center in the United States after New York City.

Geology

The waterfall is located on Moravian Creek, where it flows over a large bedrock to a lower plunge pool.

Natural history

The falls is privately owned by a campground who has built a reproduction of an old mill next to the falls.

A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower. It is a structure that uses a water wheel or water turbine to drive a mechanical process such as milling (grinding), rolling, or hammering. Such processes are needed in the production of many material goods, including flour, lumber, paper, textiles, and many metal products. These watermills may comprise gristmills, sawmills, paper mills, textile mills, hammermills, trip hammering mills, rolling mills, wire drawing mills.

Visiting the falls

From US Highway 421, exit onto NC Highway 18 and NC Highway 16. Follow NC 18/16 south to the town of Moravian Falls, bearing right to stay on NC 18. After 0.4 miles, turn left onto Falls Rd. and go 0.5 miles to a view of the falls on the left.

North Carolina Highway 18 (NC 18) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Traveling north–south through the Foothills region, it connects the cities of Shelby, Morganton, Lenoir, Wilkesboro and North Wilkesboro.

North Carolina Highway 16 (NC 16) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Traveling north–south, it connects the cities of Charlotte, Conover, Taylorsville, Wilkesboro and Jefferson; linking the Charlotte metropolitan area with the High Country.

The falls is located on the grounds of the Moravian Falls Campground, whose owners have allowed the public to access the falls (so long as they ask permission at the inside the camp store before walking to the falls, which are viewable from the road (please do not slow down or block traffic to view them).

Visitors are required to obey all rules at the campground concerning the Falls, and are not allowed to swim near or above the falls.

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References

↑ Adams, Kevin "Waterfalls of North Carolina", p. 53

External links

NC.Waterfalls.com

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[Adams-1] Adams, Kevin "Waterfalls of North Carolina", p. 53