Bucks Falls is a 50-foot waterfall in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, in the Northern Allegheny Plateau region. It lies about 7.5 miles southeast of Susquehanna and roughly 34.3 miles north of Scranton as the crow flies.
At 50 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Pennsylvania’s 133 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 20th; the typical Pennsylvania waterfall is about 28 feet. By form it is a horsetail, where the water keeps some contact with the bedrock as it falls.
The Northern Allegheny Plateau is a dissected upland of rolling hills and deep valleys in New York and Pennsylvania, with northern hardwood forest and dairy farms. Creeks cut through layered shale and sandstone in gorges lined with waterfalls, as in the Finger Lakes glens.
Wayne County holds 9 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Cascade Creek Falls, is about 9.3 miles away. Hale Eddy Falls, is about 9.6 miles away across the state line in New York. Falls, The, is about 9.7 miles away.
Bucks Falls is located at 41.8860° N, 75.4768° 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 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.