Mac-Mac Pools
- Food
- A picnic at the tables
- Kids
- Marked for kids
Crowd level: Easy. Busy only at the obvious hour
Good with kids
Best season Warm months, on a weekday if you can. Holiday weekends fill South African picnic spots. The water is mountain-stream cold.
Shallow pools in a forest stream below the escarpment, run as a day picnic site. The falls nearby were split by a 19th-century mining blast. The pools are the swim. The falls are a viewpoint.
Worth knowing
The fee
SAFCOL has listed different entrance fees for residents and visitors, and older pages do not match. Do not budget from a blog. Ask at the gate.
With kids. SAFCOL describes shallow pools and picnic tables. It is a day site, not a wave pool. Watch children in cold water with no lifeguard mentioned on the page we checked.
The short version
Mac-Mac Falls sits on the R532 between Sabie and Graskop. SAFCOL, the forestry company, operates the pools as a day area with an entrance fee. Older pages disagree on the rand amount. Pay what the gate asks that day.
Food nearby
A picnic at the tables
SAFCOL describes picnic tables at the pools. Bring food. Sabie has shops if you stock up before the gate.