Crooked Arm Falls is a 25-foot waterfall on Crooked Arm in Blount County, Tennessee, in the Blue Ridge region. It lies about 14.3 miles south of Wildwood and roughly 25.4 miles south of Knoxville as the crow flies.
At 25 feet it is on the modest side for Tennessee, where the typical waterfall with a recorded height stands around 30 feet; it ranks 171st of 332. By form it is a segmented waterfall, splitting into two or more separate streams as it falls.
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.
Blount County holds 20 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Rowans Creek Falls, a 13-foot cascade waterfall, is about 1.7 miles away. Upper Rowans Creek Falls, a cascade waterfall, is about 1.8 miles away. Whiteoak Sink Falls, a 40-foot plunge waterfall, is about 2.6 miles away.
Crooked Arm Falls is located at 35.6110° N, 83.7801° 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 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.