Mitchell Falls
Mitchell Falls is a 25-foot waterfall located in Yancey County, North Carolina on the slope of Mount Mitchell, the highest mountain in the Appalachian Mountain chain and highest point in the eastern United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Mitchell and Mount Craig.
Mount Mitchell
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Mount Mitchell is the highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and the highest peak in mainland North America east of the Mississippi River. It is located near Burnsville in Yancey County, North Carolina in the Black Mountain subrange of the Appalachians about 19 miles northeast of Asheville.
Mount Craig
Peak
Mount Craig, 6,647 feet, is the second highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and second only to 6,684 feet Mount Mitchell in eastern mainland North America.
Mitchell Falls
- Type: Waterfall
- Description: waterfall in the USA
- Category: body of water
- Location: Yancey, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.77659° or 35° 46′ 36″ northLongitude
-82.28261° or 82° 16′ 57″ westElevation
4,957 feet (1,511 metres)Height
33 feet (10 metres)Open location code
867VQPG8+JXOpenStreetMap ID
node 6302112810OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=waterfallGeoNames ID
4479840Wikidata ID
Q37687
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Western Panjabi—“Mitchell Falls” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “米歇爾瀑布”
- Mazanderani: “ئوشار میتچال”
- Mazanderani: “میتچال ئوشار”
- Persian: “آبشار میتچال”
- Persian: “آبشار میچل”
- Persian: “ابشار میتچال”
- Tajik: “Митчел”
- Tajik: “Обшори Митчел”
- Tajik: “Шаршараи Митчел”
- Urdu: “مائیکل آبشار”
- Western Panjabi: “مائیکل آبشار”
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