High Shoals Falls

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Shoals Falls is a waterfall in Burke County, North Carolina.The waterfall is on the Jacob's Fork River, flowing over a large rock outcropping in the South Mountains of North Carolina. The river continues over a series of cascades for approximately 1/4 mile past the falls, where the stream loses approximately 300 ft (100 m) in elevation. The falls is owned by the State of North Carolina, which owns and operates South Mountains State Park. The South Mountains, carved out of the Blue Ridge by erosion, are a broad belt of peaks and knobs rising abruptly from a deep valley.