Your video inspired me to check it out. Thanks!

I'm from Bristol and back in the 80s my friends and I would skip school and go there and spend all day! Mendota va fire tower and a couple of swinging bridges around Clinch Mt was also a destination 🤙 we live in a beautiful area

Technically you're in the Stony Creek area. I lived there for a bit when I first moved up to TN and used to visit these falls regularly. I gave myself a "Smoky Mountain baptism" there in September of 1999 by standing under the falls. Yes, it was very cold, but also very worth the experience 😉

But there is no slide. Wish I'd know about that place when I lived there. Now for a slide. Surely you have been to Laurel Falls, in Hampton. If you go there you can scamper up the right side (your left) of the falls to a little trail that takes you above the falls. Follow the trail along the river until you see a 5' river wide water falls. At this point the trail veers off to the left and up hill. It also veers away from the river, for now. Keep following the trail, maybe 100 yards and you come back to the river. On your left you will see a water slide dropping into a small pool of water. Walk out into the middle of the river and up on to the large rock in the middle of the river. Above the rock is a pool of water. On the right side, the water has cut a 90 degree smooth slide thru the rock. I always check the bottom of the slide for sticks or logs, but it is safe to slide. Your girls will love it, so did my lab. Actually she was the first to try it out. When the girls get older, hike up the river from here and you will come to that little bridge you crossed on the AT on the way to the falls. My kids and friends loved this adventure into the "unknown".