Cove Creek Cascades is a 17-foot waterfall on Cove Creek in Sevier County, Tennessee, in the Blue Ridge region. It lies about 4.1 miles southwest of Pigeon Forge and roughly 21.6 miles southeast of Knoxville as the crow flies.
At 17 feet it is on the modest side for Tennessee, where the typical waterfall with a recorded height stands around 30 feet; it ranks 236th of 332. By form it is 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.
Sevier County holds 37 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Cave Creek Falls, 25 feet high, is about 5.7 miles away. Laurel Falls, a 55-foot tiered waterfall, is about 6.2 miles away. Cataract Falls, a 25-foot horsetail waterfall, is about 6.9 miles away.
Cove Creek Cascades is located at 35.7648° N, 83.6208° 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 position was verified on aerial imagery. Details on trails, parking and access have not been documented for this waterfall yet.