No special access issues
🔴This area is somewhat water level dependent. At very high water levels, some of the boulders may be unclimbable. See https://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/Gauge2/detail/id/43472/ for current water levels.
🚗 Driving Directions (ESPECIALLY FOR LARGE VEHICLES):
From Fayetteville, turn right onto US-19N and cross the NRG bridge. Take the second right after the bridge onto Lansing-Edmond Road. Drive up the hill, then take your first right onto Fayette Station Road. Stay left at both forks. After the 2nd fork, the road becomes ONE WAY. Drive down the windy road and under the bridge, and past Bridge Buttress. At the next intersection, take a hard left. now you're headed down the gorge. Go all the way to the bottom and cross the wooden bridge. The road makes an immediate 90 degree turn to follow the river downstream. When the road curves away from the river, take a right and cross the small wooden bridge over the creek. Park in this lot. If there's no parking, there's a backup lot just before the tiny bridge over the creek.
🚶♂️ Hiking Directions:
From the parking lot, keep following the gravel road downriver (if you're facing the river, it's flowing to your left). When the final bus parking lot ends, keep walking downriver. It's only a few hundred yards before the backside of the Frenchman Boulder comes into view at river level. Watch out for poison ivy growing up between the river rocks. The approach is short with little elevation change, but once off the gravel road and in the woods there is rock hopping, routefinding, and scrambling. There is one short but steep section on the road. Total hiking time: 5 minutes.