Basin Creek Falls is a waterfall on Basin Creek in Monroe County, Tennessee, in the Blue Ridge region, with a total height of about 50 feet. It lies about 15.5 miles southeast of Madisonville and roughly 46.4 miles south of Knoxville 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 horsetail, where the water keeps some contact with the bedrock as it falls.
The Blue Ridge is the highest part of the southern Appalachians, a range of forested peaks and coves with oak, hickory, tulip poplar and hemlock and spruce-fir on the summits, in one of the wettest climates in the East. Steep mountain streams drop over granite, gneiss and quartzite ledges, giving the region hundreds of waterfalls. Basin Creek carries 2 recorded waterfalls, and Basin Creek Falls is the tallest of them.
There are 30 recorded waterfalls in Monroe County. Buck Branch Falls, an 8-foot cascade waterfall, is under a mile away. FS Falls, a 10-foot fan waterfall, is about 1.1 miles away. Bald River Falls, an 80-foot segmented waterfall, is about 2.1 miles away.
Basin Creek Falls is located at 35.3324° N, 84.2129° 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.