Suter Falls is a waterfall on Rocky Mountain Creek in Grundy County, Tennessee, in the Southwestern Appalachians region, with a total height of about 50 feet. It lies about 2.9 miles northeast of Gruetli-Laager and roughly 30 miles northwest of Chattanooga 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. The water comes down as a plunge, where the water drops vertically and loses contact with the rock face.
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. Rocky Mountain Creek carries 2 recorded waterfalls, and Suter Falls is the tallest of them.
There are 28 recorded waterfalls in Grundy County. Middle Suter Falls, a 30-foot fan waterfall, is under a mile away. Horsepound Falls, a 25-foot block waterfall, is about 1.3 miles away. Skinny Falls, is about 2.2 miles away.
Suter Falls is located at 35.4110° N, 85.5975° 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.