Tom Creek Falls is a 200-foot waterfall on Tom Creek in Garfield County, Colorado, in the Colorado Plateaus region. It lies about 19 miles northwest of Parachute and roughly 39.2 miles north of Grand Junction as the crow flies.
At 200 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Colorado’s 162 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 30th; the typical Colorado waterfall is about 65 feet. By form it is a horsetail, where the water keeps some contact with the bedrock as it falls.
The Colorado Plateaus are a high desert of layered sandstone mesas, canyons and plateaus with pinyon-juniper woodland and sagebrush. Waterfalls here are often seasonal, spilling over sandstone ledges after storms or snowmelt.
Garfield County holds 40 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Potts Creek Falls, a 480-foot horsetail waterfall, is about 1.1 miles away. Wiesse Creek Falls, 320 feet high, is about 3 miles away. Short Gulch Falls, 320 feet high, is about 3.9 miles away.
Tom Creek Falls is located at 39.6079° N, 108.3456° 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.