Sand Run Falls Parking — Attraction in Bloss Township

OUR CRAZY ADVENTURE... We decided to take a 3 mile hike in the tioga state forest. We hiked to this beautiful waterfall! But let me tell you what else happened. We took the wrong trail after the waterfall and followed the orange trail instead of the red, although we should have taken the blue trail. We got to the end of the orange trail, which was dead center in the middle of the forest. We had already walked 5 miles at that point, so we walked in a direction we thought was a road.

After sliding down incredibly steep hills IN THE PITCH BLACK and crossing streams multiple times, we found a dirt road. We were wet, exhausted, and tired. We had no phone signal but was able to pull up a map via GPS. We walked along this dirt road in the dark, with 1 or 2 dim flashlights, as we weren't sure how long we would have to walk and wanted to save as much battery as possible. The guys had their knives on their hips just in case. At one point we heard a noise and we all jumped to the left. It was a porcupine and our hearts stopped for a minute. We were just glad it wasn't a skunk or a bear. Might I also add we only had water, no food but Dave did decide to grab his hiking/trauma pack that we originally weren't going to bring along.

After walking for what seemed like years, we walked up to a cabin. It was extremely sketchy and there were 8+ cars there. We debated walking up to it. It ended up being a sportsmans club and there were a bunch of older gentlemen there. We told them we were lost and tired, and they offered to drive us back to our car, which was still another 4 miles away. We were very hesitant but we had no options, as a thunderstorm was starting to roll in. When we got back to our car, we were so happy.

In the end we walked a total of 12 miles in 4 hours. 4x the amount we originally planned.

The trails definitely need to be better marked. Still a 4 out of 5 stars for...

Don't come to this trail for the falls, come for the workout! At 6.7 miles round trip, you will definitely have a elevated heart rate as you go along. I walked the first half to take in the views and sounds, jogged back the other half.

It is a beautiful, peaceful, and serene desolate trail. I came on Thursday afternoon at 2:30pm and I was the only person on the trail. Trail was very clean with no sign of human life around until I got near the falls where I saw a tiny bit of garbage along the trail.

Despite it being 80 plus degrees and that day, it felt like a cool 70 because all the trees guard you from the sun.

I used to never use insect repellent until I got jumped by mad angry nats while climbing a mountain in Colorado last year so I sprayed myself down with insect repellent before I got on the trail. Happy to report no bugs bothered me until I got to the falls and I had to deal with a mob of angry flies.

Before making journey to the falls, I did take a couple pictures of the maps for the trail you will find at a post at the beginning of the trail. The trail is horribly marked and the maps aren't super helpful.

I highly recommend you download the app Alltrails and use that map so you don't get lost. Despite being under mad trees in a rural area, cell phone...

It's a LONG three mile hike to the falls. I would recommend about 2 bottles of water for each person, and shoes you wouldn't mind getting muddy. I wouldn't recommend bringing small children because it's definitely exhausting, and it takes about 1.5 hours to get to the waterfalls. The walk back to the falls seems way longer than the way to it. There are a few steep ledges, rocky areas, and mud pits, but other than that it's pretty...