Located in between Walnut Moutain Road and the Elk River section.

Constructed in 2006 by the Tennessee Eastman Hiking & Canoeing club, official maintainers of the AT (Spivey Gap to Damascus). Mountaineer Falls Shelter is not the typical forest service shelter. Mostly wood structure with metal roof

Located a quarter mile or so from Mountaineer Branch on a blue blaze trail on the hill top.

Water is a couple hundred yards further on the blue blaze from the shelter along the top of Mountaineer Branch.

Facilities include a wash pit, multiple fire pits, bar table, sleeping loft...sleeps 14
Some hikers utilize the waterfall as a shower

Campsite located short distance southbound of Mountaineer Branch on a blue blaze trail on top of the hill. Addition camping spots can be found passed the campsite on an abandon forest road. No connector between the campsite and the shelter.

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Constructed in 2006 by the Tennessee Eastman Hiking & Canoeing club, official maintainers of the AT (Spivey Gap to Damascus).
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TEHC was certainly involved in a major way but almost all of the actual labor was done bt Bob Peoples' 'Hardcore' hiker work crew.

Here's a "works-in-progress" shot of Mountaineer Falls Shelter from my Hard Core 2006 collection:

http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/showimage.php?i=17406&c=503

'Slogger

Here's a couple more:


http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/showimage.php?i=17413&catid=newimages&cutoffdate=1

http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/showimage.php?i=17414&catid=newimages&cutoffdate=1