by Mark Morrison

1994, H. F. Publishing

Morrison pays less attention to the Jocassee Gorges of North Carolina than other writers and photographers, providing a short description of the best-known portions of the Horsepasture River. He omits the Thompson River and only discusses the Toxaway above Lake Toxaway.

His directions are accompanied by maps that give somewhat more detailed, if simplistic, impressions of the areas on which he focuses, in that he provides a few contour lines and has both roads and streams on the same maps.

Morrison uses a 1-10 scale for rating many of the waterfalls in his book. Curiously, he rates Whitewater Falls an 8. He must be jaded by too many trips to Whitewater Falls, or else he finds its ease-of-access too much to bear. Given he rates Looking Glass Falls a 10, this argument doesn't really hold water.

I include this book because it has a section on South Carolina, a number of waterfalls in the Sumter National Forest. I would assume some of these falls to be near, if not actually in, the South Carolina portion of the Jocassee Gorges lands.