Rainbow Falls
Rainbow Falls is a waterfall located in Chimney Rock, Rutherford County, North Carolina.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Hickorynut Falls and Bluerock Mountain.
Hickorynut Falls
Waterfall
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Hickory Nut Falls, also known as Hickorynut Falls, is a waterfall located at Chimney Rock State Park in Rutherford County, North Carolina.
Bluerock Mountain
Peak
Bluerock Mountain is a mountain in Western North Carolina, near the community of Bat Cave. It is split between Henderson and Rutherford counties, it is home of the Bat Cave Preserve and part of Chimney Rock State Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chimney Rock and Bat Cave.
Chimney Rock
Village
Bat Cave
Hamlet
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Bat Cave is an unincorporated community in Henderson County, North Carolina, United States and is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area. Named after a bat cave located on Bluerock Mountain, it is the largest known augen gneiss granite fissure cave in North America and is a protected area, not open to the public. Bat Cave is situated 1½ miles west of Rainbow Falls.
Bearwallow
Hamlet
Bearwallow is an unincorporated community in Henderson County, North Carolina United States and is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bearwallow is situated 3½ miles west of Rainbow Falls.
Rainbow Falls
- Type: Waterfall
- Description: waterfall in Rutherford County, North Carolina, United States
- Category: body of water
- Location: Rutherford County, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.44918° or 35° 26′ 57″ northLongitude
-82.25618° or 82° 15′ 22″ westElevation
2,241 feet (683 metres)Open location code
867VCPXV+MGOpenStreetMap ID
node 10197856551OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=waterfall
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In Other Languages
From Mazanderani to Western Panjabi—“Rainbow Falls” goes by many names.
- Mazanderani: “ئوشار رینبو”
- Mazanderani: “رینبو ئوشار”
- Persian: “آبشار رینبو”
- Persian: “ابشار رینبو”
- Tajik: “Обшори Рейнбоу”
- Tajik: “Рейнбоу”
- Tajik: “Шаршараи Рейнбоу”
- Urdu: “رین بو آبشار”
- Vietnamese: “Thác Cầu vồng”
- Western Panjabi: “رین بو آبشار (روتھرفورڈ)”
- Western Panjabi: “رین بو آبشار”
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