Pleiades Cascades is a waterfall on Gorge Brook in Grafton County, New Hampshire, in the Northeastern Highlands region, with a total height of about 300 feet. It lies about 7.8 miles west of Woodstock and roughly 72.9 miles north of Manchester as the crow flies.
At 300 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of New Hampshire’s 115 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 11th; the typical New Hampshire waterfall is about 30 feet. The water comes down as a tiered waterfall, falling in several distinct steps one after another. It falls in 7 drops.
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.
There are 98 recorded waterfalls in Grafton County. Nine Cascades, a tiered waterfall, is about 2.2 miles away. Beaver Brook Cascades, a 1,000-foot tiered waterfall, is about 2.2 miles away. Stark Falls, a 20-foot cascade waterfall, is about 2.9 miles away.
Pleiades Cascades is located at 44.0146° N, 71.8324° 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.