Dog Team Falls is a waterfall on New Haven River in Addison County, Vermont, in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands region, with a total height of about 6 feet. It lies about 3.3 miles north of Middlebury (village) and roughly 94.5 miles northeast of Schenectady as the crow flies.
At 6 feet it is one of the lowest falls in the state’s records: of the 158 Vermont waterfalls with a documented height only 0 are shorter, while the typical Vermont waterfall stands around 30 feet. The water comes down as a block waterfall, wider than it is tall, spilling over a broad ledge.
The Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands are a rolling plain of farmland and mixed forest south of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. Creeks cut gorges through layered limestone and shale, dropping over ledges in waterfalls, most famously along the Niagara Escarpment. New Haven River carries 4 recorded waterfalls; the biggest of them reaches 15 feet.
There are 27 recorded waterfalls in Addison County. Huntington Falls, a dam waterfall, is about 1.3 miles away. Halpins Falls, a plunge waterfall, is about 1.8 miles away. Bittersweet Falls, an 18-foot segmented waterfall, is about 3.2 miles away.
Dog Team Falls is located at 44.0627° N, 73.1724° 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.