Lower Rumford Falls is a 62-foot waterfall on Androscoggin River in Oxford County, Maine, in the Northeastern Highlands region. It lies about 0.5 miles south of Rumford and roughly 63.1 miles north of Portland as the crow flies.
At 62 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Maine’s 80 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 18th; the typical Maine waterfall is about 29 feet. By form it is a tiered waterfall, falling in several distinct steps one after another.
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. Androscoggin River carries 2 recorded waterfalls, and Lower Rumford Falls is the tallest of them.
Oxford County holds 34 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Falls, The, is about 4.9 miles away. Swift River Falls, a 16-foot tiered waterfall, is about 6.9 miles away. Ellis Falls, an 18-foot tiered waterfall, is about 10.3 miles away.
Lower Rumford Falls is located at 44.5470° N, 70.5478° 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.