Fairy Falls is a 197-foot waterfall on Fairy Creek in Teton County, Wyoming, in the Middle Rockies region. It lies about 14.9 miles southeast of West Yellowstone and roughly 93.3 miles northeast of Idaho Falls as the crow flies.
At 197 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Wyoming’s 230 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 48th; the typical Wyoming waterfall is about 60 feet. By form it is a horsetail, where the water keeps some contact with the bedrock as it falls.
The Middle Rockies are high, glaciated mountain ranges with alpine peaks, subalpine fir and spruce forest, lodgepole pine and grassy intermontane valleys. Snowmelt streams cascade down glacial valleys and canyon walls. Fairy Creek carries 2 recorded waterfalls, and Fairy Falls is the tallest of them.
Teton County holds 121 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Upper Fairy Falls, a 20-foot fan waterfall, is under a mile away. Mystic Falls, a 70-foot tiered waterfall, is about 2.8 miles away. Sentinel Falls, a 150-foot tiered waterfall, is about 3.1 miles away.
Fairy Falls is located at 44.5252° N, 110.8701° 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.