Sutherland Falls is a 118-foot waterfall on Otter Creek in Rutland County, Vermont, in the Northeastern Highlands region. It lies about 4.8 miles northwest of Rutland and roughly 74.3 miles northeast of Schenectady as the crow flies.
At 118 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Vermont’s 158 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 17th; the typical Vermont waterfall is about 30 feet. The tallest single drop is 85 feet. By form it is a tiered waterfall, falling in several distinct steps one after another. It falls in 2 drops.
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. Otter Creek carries 3 recorded waterfalls, and Sutherland Falls is the tallest of them.
Rutland County holds 16 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Old Falls, an 18-foot block waterfall, is about 4.3 miles away. Sucker Brook Cascade, a 30-foot cascade waterfall, is about 7.2 miles away. McLaughlin Falls, a 38-foot tiered waterfall, is about 8 miles away.
Sutherland Falls is located at 43.6641° N, 73.0339° 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 position was verified on aerial imagery. Details on trails, parking and access have not been documented for this waterfall yet.