Hickey Gap Trail

This is not the maintained connector the name might suggest, and it isn't really about Hickey Gap at all. Hickey Gap is the campground name. The walk itself follows Mill Creek down past four waterfalls in a little over half a mile, unofficial and unblazed but well trodden and not hard to follow. The first, sometimes called Upper Mill Creek Falls, is a long cascading slide about thirty feet high. The second is a modest ten foot drop that flows straight into the third.

The third is the one most people mean when they say Mill Creek Falls, a fifty foot slide down a cliff face into a sparkling pool, reached by a steep scramble on the north side of the falls that used to have ropes to help with the descent, most of which are gone now. A rock hop another two hundred fifty feet downstream reaches the fourth and smallest falls, usually with nobody else around even when the third is crowded.