Mill Creek Falls is a waterfall on Mill Creek in Blount County, Tennessee, in the Blue Ridge region, with a total height of about 200 feet. It lies about 16.5 miles southeast of Maryville and roughly 28.3 miles south of Knoxville as the crow flies.
At 200 feet it is among the ten tallest of the 332 Tennessee waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 5th. The water comes down as a cascade, descending over a series of rock steps rather than in a single drop.
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. Mill Creek carries 4 recorded waterfalls, and Mill Creek Falls is the tallest of them.
There are 20 recorded waterfalls in Blount County. Upper Rowans Creek Falls, a cascade waterfall, is about 2 miles away. Rowans Creek Falls, a 13-foot cascade waterfall, is about 2.1 miles away. Crooked Arm Falls, a 25-foot segmented waterfall, is about 3.6 miles away.
Mill Creek Falls is located at 35.5623° N, 83.8005° 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 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.