Rattlesnake Falls is a 50-foot waterfall on Tributary of Falls Creek in Maury County, Tennessee, in the Interior Plateau region. It lies about 6.7 miles southwest of Mount Pleasant and roughly 39.6 miles southwest of Franklin as the crow flies.
At 50 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Tennessee’s 332 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 78th; the typical Tennessee waterfall is about 30 feet. By form it is a tiered waterfall, falling in several distinct steps one after another. It falls in 2 drops.
The Interior Plateau is a rolling limestone landscape of pasture, oak-hickory woodland and cedar glades in Kentucky and Tennessee, riddled with springs, sinkholes and caves. Waterfalls drop over limestone ledges and in karst valleys.
It is the only recorded waterfall in Maury County. Big Swan Creek Falls, a 20-foot cascade waterfall, is about 6 miles away. Eagle Falls, a 10-foot block waterfall, is about 6.4 miles away. Marcella Falls, is about 6.5 miles away.
Rattlesnake Falls is located at 35.4488° N, 87.2630° 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.