Hey everyone this is Joe with South Eastern Frontiers and today I'm exploring a series of easy hikes to little waterfalls along the southeast side of the Great Smoky Mountains. In this video I hike to a series of three waterfalls near the South Eastern Edge of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The first two waterfalls that I hike to are near Bryson City. There are Tom Branch Falls and Indian Creek Falls. The Tom Branch Falls is less than a tenth of a mile from the parking area on a very wide flat trail very easy to get to and another four tenths of a mile in is Indian Creek Falls. A beautiful waterfall for as easy as it is to get to. Then we left the deep creek area of the Smoky Mountains and went over to visit Mingo Falls which is just northeast of Cherokee in the Cherokee Indian Reservation. That is a spectacular waterfall. All together we had a great time on this side of the Great Smoky Mountains. People floating down deep creek. We hike to two very easy to get to waterfalls near Big Creek Campground in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The first one is the Tom Branch Falls. This is within a tenth of a mile of the campground so very easy to get to. The other one is Indian Creek Falls which is about another four tenths of a mile in so less than a mile round trip to get to both of these beautiful waterfalls. We're in the deep creek area right now near Bryson City and we just saw Tom Branch Falls and we're heading up to Indian Creek Falls. Deep Creek is very popular with people playing in the water. Lots of people floating down the creek. Lots of fun! Very pretty. Just watching people floating down the creek they're having a good time. All right we've come to a sign and it says Indian Creek Falls is 200 feet that way. All right that's where we're gonna go. Indian Creek Falls right there. It's nice stairs. Very nice. This was worth the only one mile hike up to get to it. Very pretty. Well as it does in the southeast it started raining on me today. So well it's a little damp but that's just how it goes. All right we have returned to the deep Creek Campground and of course it has stopped raining. Blue sky has come out. That's about my luck. All right next up is Mingus Falls near the town of Cherokee on the Cherokee Indian reservation and it's a very short trail about a tenth of a mile but it's all steps. So this should be fun. This time I brought an umbrella along. Well there's supposed to be 160 steps. There's quite a few that's for sure. Up we go. All right we've come up on a bridge and viewing platform. They said all the people up there I guess that we see the falls from there. Let's see here. Wow look at that. That's impressive. So cool. Mingo Falls. Pretty cool. All right time to say goodbye to Mingo Falls. We're heading back down. There are lots of little purple butterflies here. A little violet. Almost white. Really pretty. The second middle is out. See them? The whole cluster over there. Fine. All right heading down the trail. Back down the stairs all the way to the bottom. We are almost back to the parking lot. So that was a very nice little hike to Mingo Falls. And that will alongside the road. Very cool. Thank you.