Hell Brook Cascades is a 180-foot waterfall on Hell Brook in Lamoille County, Vermont, in the Northeastern Highlands region. It lies about 8 miles northwest of Stowe and roughly 126.5 miles northwest of Manchester as the crow flies.
At 180 feet it is among the ten tallest of the 158 Vermont waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 5th. The tallest single drop is 60 feet. By form it is a tiered waterfall, falling in several distinct steps one after another. It falls in 4 drops.
The Northeastern Highlands are the mountains of northern New England and the Adirondacks, with spruce-fir on the summits and northern hardwood forest of maple, beech and birch below, and countless lakes and boulder-strewn brooks. Fast mountain streams drop over granite and gneiss ledges in chains of falls and pools.
Lamoille County holds 22 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Smugglers Falls, an 880-foot tiered waterfall, is under a mile away. Carwash Falls, a 75-foot tiered waterfall, is about 1.3 miles away. Bingham Falls, a 90-foot tiered waterfall, is about 2.5 miles away.
Hell Brook Cascades is located at 44.5486° N, 72.7970° 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.