Sols Creek Falls is a 125-foot waterfall on Sols Creek in Jackson County, North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge region. It lies about 9.5 miles southeast of Cullowhee and roughly 36.9 miles southwest of Asheville as the crow flies.
At 125 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of North Carolina’s 288 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 54th; the typical North Carolina waterfall is about 50 feet. By form it is a horsetail, where the water keeps some contact with the bedrock as it falls.
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. Sols Creek carries 2 recorded waterfalls, and Sols Creek Falls is the tallest of them.
Jackson County holds 79 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Big Branch Cove Falls, a 40-foot cascade waterfall, is about 1.1 miles away. Flat Creek Falls, a 240-foot tiered waterfall, is about 1.2 miles away. Robinson Creek Falls, a 30-foot cascade waterfall, is about 1.4 miles away.
Sols Creek Falls is located at 35.2375° N, 83.0353° 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.