Sliding Rock
North Carolina · height not recorded · Last verified 2026-05-15
Flow at Sliding Rock is light today (35 cfs) — visit for the geology, not the volume.
Right now
Streamflow
34.9 cfs
DAVIDSON RIVER NEAR BREVARD, · 20m ago
Overnight
61°F
Partly Cloudy
Friday
87°F
Partly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms
Today's daylight
Sunrise 6:24 AM · Sunset 8:48 PM · 14h 24m
Snapshot built 5m ago. Sources: USGS · NWS GSP.
Sliding Rock is a waterfall in North Carolina. Height has not been officially recorded. Access details and conditions have not yet been verified in person by Fallspots — the data on this page comes from OpenStreetMap and USGS GNIS.
Sliding Rock is in North Carolina. It drops along Looking Glass Creek. The base sits at roughly 2,775 feet of elevation. Drive time is about 8 minutes from Brevard. OpenStreetMap shows a trail within 20 meters of the marked location, though the name isn't recorded. This is one of the more frequently visited falls in the state by our popularity model. Source records come from OpenStreetMap.
Sliding Rock is a waterfall in Western North Carolina, located near Brevard, so named because visitors can slide all the way down the waterfall into the plunge pool below. The plunge pool is around 8 feet deep in the middle, with a strong churning river current, so users must be able to swim or wear a life vest. The water in the river and the plunge pool remains near 55 degrees Fahrenheit year round. Sliding Rock is a small slide-type waterfall on Looking Glass Creek, in the Pisgah National Forest, near Brevard, North Carolina. It has a gentle slope and is about 60 feet long, ending in a large, deep pool at the bottom.
Is the water flowing right now?
Most waterfall sites don't tell you this. The waterfall itself is almost never gauged, but a USGS streamgage in the same watershed can tell you whether snowmelt has started, peaked, or run dry.
USGS gage 03441000 · 5.3 mi away
DAVIDSON RIVER NEAR BREVARD, NC
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30-day streamflow
Below 30-day average↻ Same date last year: 101 cfs · 39% of last year — significantly drier
Compare to nearby falls
If this one isn't the right fit, here's how it stacks up against the closest documented falls. Every column is filterable on the site — not buried in 13,000 reviews.
| Waterfall | Distance | Height | Trail | Dogs | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sliding Rock (this page) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hidden Falls | 0 mi | — | — | — | — |
| Tranquility Falls | 0 mi | — | — | — | — |
| Little Looking Glass Falls | 0 mi | — | — | — | — |
| Mystery Falls | 0 mi | — | — | — | — |
| Little Moore Cove Falls | 0 mi | 26 ft | — | — | — |
Questions visitors ask about Sliding Rock
Answers built from our structured data. If a question isn't here, the fact is unverified — we'd rather omit than guess.
How far is Sliding Rock from a major city?
Sliding Rock is 5 miles from Brevard (about 8 minutes' drive).
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Where it is
35.3111, -82.7866
Sources and live status
Where we got the data, and where to check current conditions before you drive.
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding_Rock
Wikidata (Q37255)
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37255
Last verified by Fallspots: 2026-05-15
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