Bust Your Butt Falls is a waterfall on Cullasaja River in Macon County, North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge region, with a total height of about 15 feet. It lies about 9 miles southeast of Franklin and roughly 52.1 miles west of Greenville as the crow flies.
At 15 feet it is on the modest side for North Carolina, where the typical waterfall with a recorded height stands around 50 feet; it ranks 265th of 288. The water comes down as a tiered waterfall, falling in several distinct steps one after another. It falls in 2 drops.
The Blue Ridge is the highest part of the southern Appalachians, a range of forested peaks and coves with oak, hickory, tulip poplar and hemlock and spruce-fir on the summits, in one of the wettest climates in the East. Steep mountain streams drop over granite, gneiss and quartzite ledges, giving the region hundreds of waterfalls. Cullasaja River carries 7 recorded waterfalls; the biggest of them reaches 200 feet.
There are 49 recorded waterfalls in Macon County. Cullasaja Falls, a 200-foot tiered waterfall, is about 1.7 miles away. Crow Creek Falls, is about 1.8 miles away. Lower Buck Creek Falls, is about 2.2 miles away.
Bust Your Butt Falls is located at 35.0929° N, 83.2661° W. The listing is based on the World Waterfall Database, one of the sources compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey in its inventory of waterfalls and rapids of the conterminous United States. The creek name is confirmed against the federal Geographic Names Information System. The position was verified on aerial imagery. Details on trails, parking and access have not been documented for this waterfall yet.