This site holds no file of mapped access sites for North Carolina, so it can say where the public ground on Cushion Branch is and not where the landings are. 1 block of public land touches the river, which is where you can stand without asking — 94,190 acres between them, counting each unit whole rather than the part beside the water. The nearest town we map is Asheville, 12.9 miles from the river's midpoint in a straight line, with the water south of the town.
| Town | Distance | Direction to the river |
|---|---|---|
| Asheville | 12.9 mi | south |
| Brevard | 18.3 mi | north-east |
Straight-line distance from the river's midpoint, and the direction you would travel from the town to reach it. The roads are not mapped here, so there is no drive time — a travel time nobody measured is the kind of number that gets somebody lost.
We have no mapped access sites for North Carolina. That is an absence of data and not a statement that there are none — the public ground below is what this page can answer with.
Ownership from PAD-US as the state publishes it. Where a block has its own page, the name links to it. The river miles are how far this river's drawn axis runs inside each block, measured here; the acreage is the whole unit's, most of which is nowhere near this water. "Restricted access" and "access unrecorded" are PAD-US's own words for the block, and neither one means open — check before you park.
Cushion Branch — live water temperature, regulations and access