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Directions to Trailhead:

Trail Description:

The first mile of the Porters Creek Trail is actually an old gravel road. The trail winds through a lush forest of moss covered trees and rocks as it follows Porters Creek. If you’re hiking this trail during the spring, you’ll be greeted by an awesome display of yellow trillium at the beginning of the trail.  

If you want to continue onto the waterfalls at this junction, go left at the fork. You’ll walk another 100 feet and will come to another trail junction, go left here as well to continue walking on the Porters Creek Trail.
 

The road turns into a path at this point. You’ll also begin to see much larger, old growth trees as you head further upstream. At 1.6 miles you’ll cross the second footbridge. Just past this bridge we began to see many wildflowers. The forest floor was literally carpeted with bloodroot, hepaticas, white fringed phacelia, violets, white trilliums and other flowers during our hike in late March.

As the season progresses into April and May, you can find yellow trillium, toothwort, wild geranium, May-apple, dwarf ginseng, blue phlox, baneberry, foam flower, halberd-leaved violets, woodland bluets and Jack-in-the-pulpits.

At roughly 2 miles, Fern Branch Falls drops down off the ridge to the left of the trail. During high water flows, this is a spectacular waterfall. This particular hike ends at this point, but the trail continues on for another 1.7 miles to a backcountry camp site.