The Cabin Creek trail is an outstanding little hike!  It’s a short day hike (1.8 miles) that has a really cool surprise at about the halfway mark.  That surprise is a relatively tall waterfall that seems out of place!  It’s on a smalli creek(Cabin Creek) that seems innocuous, actually, and you won’t expect to see such a tall waterfall.  It’s very cool!

If you start on lower trail and hike counterclockwise, you won’t have to look for the waterfall, it will appear in front of you.  If you hike clockwise on the upper trail then you will need to look back about halfway through the creek section of the hike in order to see the waterfall.

The first part of both trails is your typical Virginia scenery, which is great.  Once you reach the creek you will begin hiking parallel to the creek.  On the upper section you will turn and start hiking up the creek which becomes quite difficult and requires a little bit of scrambling and care.  It’s not technical so to speak, but it’s better to hike it when it isn’t muddy.  It goes a short ways and dead-ends, at which time you will backtrack and begin hiking parallel to the creek which happens to go downhill and downstream.

After about 5 minutes of hiking downstream along the creak there is a steep hill you descend.  Once you get to the bottom of the hill you step to the right toward the creek and look up the creek and there you will find the waterfall.  It seems like it doesn’t belong on this small creek because it’s way too tall.

Great little hike!