Sixty Foot Falls is a waterfall on tributary of Mountain Fork Creek in Franklin County, Arkansas, in the Boston Mountains region, with a total height of about 56 feet. It lies about 16.3 miles north of Ozark and roughly 31.4 miles southeast of Fayetteville as the crow flies.
At 56 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Arkansas’s 110 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 26th; the typical Arkansas waterfall is about 34 feet. The water comes down as a plunge, where the water drops vertically and loses contact with the rock face.
The Boston Mountains are the highest and most rugged part of the Ozarks, deeply dissected sandstone plateaus covered in oak-hickory forest with shortleaf pine. Clear creeks cut narrow hollows with numerous bluff-line waterfalls, at their best in spring. tributary of Mountain Fork Creek carries 4 recorded waterfalls, and Sixty Foot Falls is the tallest of them.
There are 14 recorded waterfalls in Franklin County. Upper Sixty Foot Falls, a cascade waterfall, is under a mile away. Spirit Mountain Falls, a 15-foot curtain waterfall, is under a mile away. Mountain Fork Creek Falls, a 13-foot plunge waterfall, is under a mile away.
Sixty Foot Falls is located at 35.7212° N, 93.7865° 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.