Cascade Falls is a waterfall on Trussell Creek in Grundy County, Tennessee, in the Southwestern Appalachians region, with a total height of about 70 feet. It lies about 2.1 miles west of Monteagle and roughly 34.6 miles west of Chattanooga as the crow flies.
At 70 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Tennessee’s 332 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 49th; the typical Tennessee waterfall is about 30 feet. The water comes down as a cascade, descending over a series of rock steps rather than in a single drop.
The Southwestern Appalachians are the Cumberland Plateau and its escarpments, a sandstone tableland covered in oak and mixed mesophytic forest and cut by deep gorges. Creeks pour off the plateau rim over sandstone caprock into gorges, creating many tall, dramatic falls.
There are 28 recorded waterfalls in Grundy County. Pennington Falls, 20 feet high, is under a mile away. Otter Falls, a 10-foot punchbowl waterfall, is about 2.3 miles away. Morgans Falls, a cascade waterfall, is about 3.8 miles away.
Cascade Falls is located at 35.2356° N, 85.8772° 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.