Snow Falls is a 12-foot waterfall on Morgan Creek in Rhea County, Tennessee, in the Southwestern Appalachians region. It lies about 3.9 miles north of Dayton and roughly 35.3 miles north of East Chattanooga as the crow flies.
At 12 feet it is on the modest side for Tennessee, where the typical waterfall with a recorded height stands around 30 feet; it ranks 264th of 332. By form it is a punchbowl, where the water is forced through a narrow gap into a large pool.
The Southwestern Appalachians are the Cumberland Plateau and its escarpments, a sandstone tableland covered in oak and mixed mesophytic forest and cut by deep gorges. Creeks pour off the plateau rim over sandstone caprock into gorges, creating many tall, dramatic falls. Morgan Creek carries 2 recorded waterfalls, and Snow Falls is the tallest of them.
Rhea County holds 14 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Laurel Falls, an 80-foot plunge waterfall, is under a mile away. Pickard Falls, is about 1.4 miles away. Paine Creek Falls, 10 feet high, is about 1.6 miles away.
Snow Falls is located at 35.5467° N, 85.0387° 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.