Crystal Falls is a 90-foot waterfall on Crystal Creek in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, in the Southwestern Appalachians region. It lies about 5.9 miles south of Pikeville and roughly 31.7 miles north of East Chattanooga as the crow flies.
At 90 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Tennessee’s 332 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 27th; the typical Tennessee waterfall is about 30 feet. By form it is a tiered waterfall, falling in several distinct steps one after another. It falls in 2 drops.
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.
Bledsoe County holds 3 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Brush Creek Falls, a 12-foot plunge waterfall, is about 4.7 miles away. Pickard Falls, is about 6.7 miles away. Sale Creek Falls, a 40-foot horsetail waterfall, is about 7 miles away.
Crystal Falls is located at 35.5200° N, 85.1780° 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.