Highland Falls is a waterfall on Fall Creek in Cumberland County, Tennessee, in the Southwestern Appalachians region, with a total height of about 110 feet. It lies about 7.1 miles west of Rockwood and roughly 50.1 miles west of Knoxville as the crow flies.
At 110 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Tennessee’s 332 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 18th; the typical Tennessee waterfall is about 30 feet. The water comes down as a plunge, where the water drops vertically and loses contact with the rock face.
The Southwestern Appalachians are the Cumberland Plateau and its escarpments, a sandstone tableland covered in oak and mixed mesophytic forest and cut by deep gorges. Creeks pour off the plateau rim over sandstone caprock into gorges, creating many tall, dramatic falls. Fall Creek carries 3 recorded waterfalls; the biggest of them reaches 256 feet.
There are 6 recorded waterfalls in Cumberland County. Basin Falls, a 45-foot slide waterfall, is about 2.4 miles away. Haley Mountain Falls, is about 3.1 miles away. Laurel Falls, a 40-foot segmented waterfall, is about 5.6 miles away.
Highland Falls is located at 35.8805° N, 84.8100° 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.