Cascades is a 66-foot waterfall on Little Stony Creek in Giles County, Virginia, in the Ridge and Valley region. It lies about 4.9 miles northeast of Pembroke and roughly 35.4 miles west of Roanoke as the crow flies.
At 66 feet it is on the modest side for Virginia, where the typical waterfall with a recorded height stands around 69 feet; it ranks 28th of 53. By form it is a plunge, where the water drops vertically and loses contact with the rock face.
The Ridge and Valley is a corridor of long, parallel forested ridges and farmed limestone valleys running the length of the Appalachians. Waterfalls occur where streams cut through resistant sandstone on the ridges. Little Stony Creek carries 5 recorded waterfalls, and Cascades is the tallest of them.
Giles County holds 4 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Upper Cascades, a block waterfall, is under a mile away. Wylie Falls, is about 16.1 miles away. Harvey Falls, is about 17.9 miles away across the state line in West Virginia.
Cascades is located at 37.3679° N, 80.5749° 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.