Joy Falls is a 70-foot waterfall in Scott County, Tennessee, in the Southwestern Appalachians region. It lies about 8.6 miles west of Oneida and roughly 56.9 miles northwest of Knoxville as the crow flies.
At 70 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Tennessee’s 332 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 49th; the typical Tennessee waterfall is about 30 feet. By form it is a fan, spreading out horizontally as it falls and staying in contact with the rock.
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.
Scott County holds 18 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Root Falls, an 8-foot plunge waterfall, is under a mile away. Step Falls, a 30-foot plunge waterfall, is about 2.5 miles away. Fall Branch Falls, a 10-foot block waterfall, is about 2.6 miles away.
Joy Falls is located at 36.5267° N, 84.6627° 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.