This hike occurred on Saturday, February 25th, 2017. There might still be more slot canyons out there in the Blue Ridge Mountains, waiting for their turns to be discovered and introduced to the public. Two small but photogenic waterfalls act as bonuses to this already excellent hike.
At the Upper Chattooga River Slot Canyon, the mighty river gets squeezed into an unusually deep and very picturesque alleyway that is no more than a few feet wide. What if I told you that there is a slot canyon, or several, in southwest North Carolina? Are you baffled yet? It is actually the truth, as there are a few isolated and very rare slot canyons on some of the mountain rivers and creeks in southwest North Carolina and adjacent portions of extreme northeast Georgia. These unique canyons are fairly common in the Desert Southwest sector (such as in Utah or Arizona) of the United States. The definition of the term slot canyon is 'a narrow canyon formed by the wear of water rushing through rock'.
