Fall Mountain Trail begins and ends at Morrow Mountain State Park's boating access area. Originally the trail followed the lakeshore of Lake Tillery to Falls Dam. Several years back, the trail was rerouted when a bridge over a side creek was washed out. Now the trail is located on higher ground and does not go to the dam. You can still find the a portion of the old trail and make your way to the base of the dam. It appears the land surrounding the dam is privately owned and is well posted. I suspect this is another the reason the trail was rerouted to not include the dam.
Many ring billed gulls occupy the rocks below the dam. There is very little remaining space for gulls so they take turns sitting on the rocks.
The new trail reaches a high point with limited wintertime views of the lake. Then it follows some old two tracks coming very close to the historic Dr Kron house. The cemetery behind the house is a Kron family resting ground. Chain link fence, as seen in the below photo, enclose something here. I know the fence served a purpose at one time. Perhaps the cemetery was a private inholding in the park.
Finish the loop back to the boat access area and you can take the short Three Rivers Trail loop as well. The three rivers are the Yadkin, Uwharrie and Pee Dee. The Uwharrie flows into the Yadkin across the lake. Where they conflow, the Pee Dee is formed.
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I loved the trail when it went to the dam, then climbed the steep banks to the top of Fall Mountain. I just recently found out it had been rerouted.
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