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Sure, you could spend Black Friday with your hands full of shopping bags or curled up on the couch in a post-turkey coma. But why not keep the holiday going by venturing out to appreciate the nature all around Greenville? These hiking spots will give you the views GVL’s mountains + trails are known for… and maybe burn off that extra slice of pumpkin pie.

Keowee-Toxaway

🚙: 32 miles from downtown

🏔 Natural Bridge Nature Trail: 1.3 mile loop | Moderate-strenuous | Views of the lake, Poe Creek, and natural blueberry bushes

🏔 Raven Rock: 4.4 mile loop | Moderate-strenuous | Takes you across old Cherokee lands.

DuPont Forest

🚙: 43 miles from downtown

Fun fact: The first Hunger Games movie was filmed in this park.

🏔 Stone Mountain: Highest point in forest

🏔 Bridal Veil Falls: An overhanging ledge allows you to walk along the backside of the waterfall

🏔 If you have waterproof shoes and want to see lots of waterfalls (+ can handle some steep elevation changes), check out Carrick Creek Trail.

👟 1.9 mile loop | Moderate | Starts at the Nature Center, across the road from Lake Oolenoy.

🐶 friendly? Yes.

Carrick Creek Waterfalls is located 300 feet behind the Table Rock Nature Center on the Carrick Creek Trail if you don’t want to do the hike but still want to see a waterfall.

Check out more trails in the Upstate/WNC area here.