Little Creek Falls is a 60-foot waterfall on Little Creek in Henderson County, North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge region. It lies about 3 miles northeast of Edneyville and roughly 19.6 miles southeast of Asheville as the crow flies.
At 60 feet it is taller than the typical North Carolina waterfall of about 50 feet, ranking 114th of 288 with a recorded height. By form it is a horsetail, where the water keeps some contact with the bedrock 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. Little Creek carries 2 recorded waterfalls, and Little Creek Falls is the tallest of them.
Henderson County holds 20 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Turnbreeches Creek Falls, a 120-foot tiered waterfall, is about 1.3 miles away. Wolf Creek Falls, a tiered waterfall, is about 2 miles away. Hickorynut Falls, a 351-foot horsetail waterfall, is about 2.4 miles away.
Little Creek Falls is located at 35.4131° N, 82.2938° 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.