Cascade Falls is a waterfall on Mill Brook in Windsor County, Vermont, in the Northeastern Highlands region, with a total height of about 84 feet. It lies about 5.2 miles southwest of Windsor and roughly 59.4 miles northwest of Manchester as the crow flies.
At 84 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Vermont’s 158 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 26th; the typical Vermont waterfall is about 30 feet. The water comes down as a horsetail, where the water keeps some contact with the bedrock as it falls.
The Northeastern Highlands are the mountains of northern New England and the Adirondacks, with spruce-fir on the summits and northern hardwood forest of maple, beech and birch below, and countless lakes and boulder-strewn brooks. Fast mountain streams drop over granite and gneiss ledges in chains of falls and pools. Mill Brook carries 8 recorded waterfalls, and Cascade Falls is the tallest of them.
There are 16 recorded waterfalls in Windsor County. Little Cascade Falls, a 45-foot tiered waterfall, is under a mile away. Gerrys Falls, a cascade waterfall, is about 1.9 miles away. Amsden Falls, a block waterfall, is about 2.8 miles away.
Cascade Falls is located at 43.4348° N, 72.4678° 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 exact position has not yet been verified on aerial imagery, so treat the map pin as approximate. Details on trails, parking and access have not been documented for this waterfall yet.