Grassy Branch Falls is a waterfall on Grassy Branch in Haywood County, North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge region. It lies about 9.7 miles north of Cove Creek and roughly 27.3 miles west of Asheville as the crow flies.
Its height has not been recorded in the source data. By form it is a tiered waterfall, falling in several distinct steps one after another.
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.
Haywood County holds 23 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Little Fall Branch Falls, 40 feet high, is about 1.7 miles away. Midnight Hole Falls, a 6-foot punchbowl waterfall, is about 6.5 miles away. Mouse Creek Falls, a 25-foot cascade waterfall, is about 7.2 miles away.
Grassy Branch Falls is located at 35.7462° N, 83.0056° 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.