McClure Falls is a 57-foot waterfall on tributary of Hawk Hollow in Newton County, Arkansas, in the Boston Mountains region. It lies about 24.3 miles southeast of Huntsville and roughly 43.6 miles east of Fayetteville as the crow flies.
At 57 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Arkansas’s 110 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 25th; the typical Arkansas waterfall is about 34 feet. The tallest single drop is 33 feet. By form it is a tiered waterfall, falling in several distinct steps one after another. It falls in 2 drops.
The Boston Mountains are the highest and most rugged part of the Ozarks, deeply dissected sandstone plateaus covered in oak-hickory forest with shortleaf pine. Clear creeks cut narrow hollows with numerous bluff-line waterfalls, at their best in spring.
Newton County holds 42 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Smith Falls, a 125-foot tiered waterfall, is under a mile away. Bowers Hollow Falls, a 56-foot plunge waterfall, is under a mile away. Lower Adkins Canyon Falls, a plunge waterfall, is about 1.5 miles away.
McClure Falls is located at 35.8452° N, 93.4255° 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.