Laurel Falls is a 400-foot waterfall on Corbin Creek in Transylvania County, North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge region. It lies about 19 miles north of Walhalla and roughly 37.2 miles west of Greenville as the crow flies.
At 400 feet it is among the ten tallest of the 288 North Carolina waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 10th. By form it is a tiered waterfall, falling in several distinct steps one after another.
The Blue Ridge is the highest part of the southern Appalachians, a range of forested peaks and coves with oak, hickory, tulip poplar and hemlock and spruce-fir on the summits, in one of the wettest climates in the East. Steep mountain streams drop over granite, gneiss and quartzite ledges, giving the region hundreds of waterfalls.
Transylvania County holds 133 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Whitewater Falls, a 411-foot tiered waterfall, is under a mile away. Lower Whitewater Falls, a 275-foot tiered plunge waterfall, is about 1.8 miles away across the state line in South Carolina. Big Falls, a 640-foot tiered waterfall, is about 1.8 miles away.
Laurel Falls is located at 35.0364° N, 83.0118° 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.