Nancy Cascades is a waterfall on Nancy Brook in Grafton County, New Hampshire, in the Northeastern Highlands region, with a total height of about 360 feet. It lies about 13.6 miles west of North Conway and roughly 64.5 miles northwest of Portland as the crow flies.
At 360 feet it is among the ten tallest of the 115 New Hampshire waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 8th. The tallest single drop is 80 feet. The water comes down as a tiered waterfall, falling in several distinct steps one after another.
The Northeastern Highlands are the mountains of northern New England and the Adirondacks, with spruce-fir on the summits and northern hardwood forest of maple, beech and birch below, and countless lakes and boulder-strewn brooks. Fast mountain streams drop over granite and gneiss ledges in chains of falls and pools. Nancy Brook carries 2 recorded waterfalls, and Nancy Cascades is the tallest of them.
There are 98 recorded waterfalls in Grafton County. Davis Brook Falls, a cascade waterfall, is about 1.5 miles away. Nancy Gorge, a cascade waterfall, is about 1.7 miles away. Arethusa Falls, a 176-foot tiered waterfall, is about 2.2 miles away.
Nancy Cascades is located at 44.1148° N, 71.3883° 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.