She had a waterfall. She had access to water." The forest has caves, ravines and trenches, and 60 searchers combed the area by land and air in the days after her disappearance.

This is at least the second fatal fall in the Forest Falls area this year. On May 2, after being believed to have fallen about 80 feet, 33-year-old Robert Carey Jr. of Calimesa was found ...

Getting down to the waterfalls isn’t necessarily the problem, despite a quarter mile-section with a 40-degree drop that plunges the trail 800 feet downward in a very short distance. It’s ...

DuPont State Recreational Forest, managed by the North Carolina Forest Service, is loaded with waterfalls, and people – the 10,400-acre forest has some 600,000 visitors a year.

In the past 25 years, the Forest Service estimates there have been nearly 50 waterfall related deaths, which includes 37 fatalities on 44 waterfalls assessed between 1993 and 2013.