Carver Falls is a 126-foot waterfall on Poultney River in Washington County, New York, in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands region. It lies about 3.1 miles northwest of Fair Haven and roughly 64.6 miles northeast of Schenectady as the crow flies.
At 126 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of New York’s 184 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 32nd; the typical New York waterfall is about 50.5 feet. The tallest single drop is 65 feet. By form it is a dam-created falls, where a man-made structure creates the drop.
The Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands are a rolling plain of farmland and mixed forest south of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. Creeks cut gorges through layered limestone and shale, dropping over ledges in waterfalls, most famously along the Niagara Escarpment. Poultney River carries 2 recorded waterfalls, and Carver Falls is the tallest of them.
Washington County holds 14 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Falls, The, a cascade waterfall, is about 3.3 miles away across the state line in Vermont. Sucker Brook Cascade, a 30-foot cascade waterfall, is about 7.5 miles away across the state line in Vermont. Hampton Falls, 18 feet high, is about 7.6 miles away.
Carver Falls is located at 43.6275° N, 73.3070° 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.