Bent Mountain Falls is a 280-foot waterfall on Camp Creek in Montgomery County, Virginia, in the Blue Ridge region. It lies about 5.5 miles southeast of Shawsville and roughly 16.9 miles southwest of Roanoke as the crow flies.
At 280 feet it is among the ten tallest of the 53 Virginia waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 4th. By form it is a tiered waterfall, falling in several distinct steps one after another.
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.
Montgomery County holds 2 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Bottom Creek Falls, a 200-foot tiered waterfall, is under a mile away. Lick Fork Falls, a 100-foot tiered waterfall, is about 2.5 miles away. Purgatory Falls, a 75-foot tiered waterfall, is about 5.3 miles away.
Bent Mountain Falls is located at 37.1168° N, 80.1802° 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.