It is so heart breaking to see Bottomless Pools like this. I grew up coming here with my family. Wonderful memories we have of this place. I sure hope that someone somewhere can get it restored and open again very soon.

I use to go to Lake Lure several times a year but especially on the 4th of July and always visited the Bottomless pools. Love it as much today as I did then it's absolutely breath taking. I hope that one day it gets a make over and the public can experience this beautiful place as they once did.

Thank you! I visited several times in the 70’s. Stunning spot.

Thanks. I lived in Rutherford County back in the mid-eighties , passed by the “bottomless pools” signs several times and wondered what it was about.

I have come to Lake Lure for 30+ yrs and my parents never took us and I always wanted to go. As an adult, I came back and got to go in 2000, 2001,2002,2004 and was my favorite place. I could stay there for hours. I came back in 2007/2008 and it was always closed due to family illness. 2010 was posted as closed / No Trespassing and the big signs were gone/marked out. I still go back there in the hopes of it being opened again. Based on this video, the pipe rails and ledges..... probably can't afford the liability insurance to bring it up to code for the public. SO SAD!! I wish it was at least be posted for sale to have the dream of potential opening. Breaks my heart to have such awesome beauty and no one gets to experienced it. :(

I miss this place so much. I remember going here as I was growing up but now I can't share it with my own family :( it was one of the best parts of our mountain vacation. Thank you for this amazing video!!

Thank you for posting this it brought back so many memories.

very cool and beautiful video, I rode my bike there many times , to the covered bridge, but stopped due the no trespassing sign, but always wanted to go in and explore, glad you went in and did the video. very cool place with the old buildings

Holy Cow Jim, this is blowing me away ! my Grandparents lived there, and operated the Bottomless Pools from the 50's(maybe even earlier) into the 70's. I spent a lot of my Childhood on those grounds. that entrance bridge used to be uncovered and it was kinda sketchy!! I remember when they rebuilt and covered it. Thanks for posting this man...!!

I live in Lake Lure and my family has been here for several generations. It is very sad to see the pools closed. I wish the current owner, Allen Moore, would sell the property or restore and open it, so the public could once again enjoy it's beauty! I think we as native Lake Lure residents should preserve and share our rich history and lands with others. We are blessed to live and own these beautiful lands!

THANK YOU FOR SHOWÍNG ME YOUR BEAUTÍFUL LANDSCAPES OF NATURE AND PLACE ILÍKE IT VERY BEAUTÍFUL THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARÍNG !!!

Me and my two younger brothers used to play there in the 70s. Took my girlfriend, now my wife there . Have fond memories of this place. How divers could not locate a bottom. Still have a house around the corner across frm boat landing. Vacation there year to this day.We have been very blessed by my parents vision.

Pray wish they would open this place back up to the public its to beautiful, love to see it, wish someone with lots lots of money would try fix this up, wish the state parks would have Boughton it to fix it up and have guides up at the falls watching everyone to bay rules such a beautiful place of beauty to be not to be shown to public

brings back many child hood memories of fishing under the bridge and swing in the river and poolsi. my mom was a live in asistant for years for the lady that owned the property( Martha Jane Powers). she lived in the 2 story rock house that is just beside the pools ( the last dirt driveway on the right just before the covered bridge). from what I have been told Martha Jane has past away a few years ago and is now owned by her nephew Allen. I would love to be able to go back to the house and pools one day as there was so much history there the Powers family was very well known in the area and in politics I can remember seeing pictures hanging on the wall in the house of President Rosivelt in a top less car passing by the beach area. hopefully one day the pools will be reopened and if so I would highly recommend going it is a very peacefully and beauty full place.

Always went there in the summer. So pretty and cool and refreshing

Loved going there as a kid in the 60s. Hopefully it will become part of the park instead of going to a private buyer...

I was in Lake Lure this past weekend, and asked a park ranger who was leading hikes in the area whether the state would be adding the bottomless pools to its public lands portfolio. He said "they'd like to, but it's not for sale." I walked down Bottomless Pools Drive but there was an orange tape strung across the road about 65 feet from the covered bridge. I was told by a local bartender that the property was watched by a "mean old lady" who would call the police on you if you trespass. It's very disappointing to go to Lake Lure and not to be able to see these beautiful falls. I sincerely hope that whoever inherits the property will consider selling it to the state, so everyone can enjoy it.

This is soooo cool...thankz

I went there today to look at a remodeling job. Well I drove down the access road. A customer lives at the end of the Bottomless Pools Road. I was intrigued by the story of the pools so I researched it. Would be nice if they could restore it. An extremely beautiful area and the house sits in a valley with creeks, waterfalls, flowers, and so many birds. I hope she takes the bid so I can visit there for the next few weeks. Haha

Wish I could see this before I die, lol, such a beautiful place.

Very interesting.

5 years later, still not opened. Would really like to see the state park add this... it's just sitting there quietly.

When the owners passed away they left Borromless Pools to their Church in Rutherford County, so I dont see anyone ever opening it again...

Very cool.

I hope this land is preserved and maybe part of the park one day. I’d hate to see one of these developers get it and ruin it with their greed and disregard for our natural wonders

Wow, who knew! We have a vacation home on the lake, we always saw the sign,Never knew what it was about. Hope it opens back up. What a waste to be shut down.

I used to beg my parents to take me there when we would go to Lake Lure when I was a kid. They always called it a tourist trap and I never got to go. Man did we miss out

Love this! My grandparents would take me here every summer in the late 70's/early 80's. My grandmother was political buddies with the woman who owned the property at the time, so we never paid admission.

creepy but thanks for posting!

If this place is closed and posted No Trespassing, how did this video get made?

Can you hike here or is it private property?

it didn't close in the 70's bc my nephew wasn't born till 83 and we took him when he was around 8 or 9 years old...

Hire a leaf blower for these trails

Nice trespassing video - you're making it way too easy for the Lake Lure Police Dept. to find and prosecute you. Seriously, it's a shame that the Bottomless Pools are in such dilapidated condition. As recently as 2004 I went there with the possibility of getting married in the wedding chapel, but at that time several storms had already downed the large hemlocks along the pool trail and trashed the former beautiful views, the pools were sunlit instead of shady, and the place looked pretty decrepit but not totally abandoned. Someone was still operating the wedding chapel. Today it belongs to an out-of-state owner in TN. No idea what will ever happen with it. The "bottomless" pools (if I recall correctly - 90, 60 and 45 feet deep - impressive potholes but not exactly 'bottomeless") are beautifulto view, but the whole Pool Creek ecosystem is the real star. It would be nice to have a combined picnic/visitor area and nature preserve in there again. Not holding my breath for that to happen. Development happening in every direction.

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Usually pools like this are places of spirituality for First Nations. All the land has a long history, this place is too special not to have been a part of their lives.

southern Californian here. Looks spooky to me. Some of that footage looks haunted even. Very unsafe. That's why it's closed

brings back many child hood memories of fishing under the bridge and swing in the river and poolsi. my mom was a live in asistant for years for the lady that owned the property( Martha Jane Powers). she lived in the 2 story rock house that is just beside the pools ( the last dirt driveway on the right just before the covered bridge). from what I have been told Martha Jane has past away a few years ago and is now owned by her nephew Allen. I would love to be able to go back to the house and pools one day as there was so much history there the Powers family was very well known in the area and in politics I can remember seeing pictures hanging on the wall in the house of President Rosivelt in a top less car passing by the beach area. hopefully one day the pools will be reopened and if so I would highly recommend going it is a very peacefully and beauty full place.