Sterling Brook Gorge is a waterfall on Sterling Brook in Lamoille County, Vermont, in the Northeastern Highlands region, with a total height of about 105 feet. It lies about 4.9 miles west of Morristown and roughly 123.9 miles northwest of Manchester as the crow flies.
At 105 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Vermont’s 158 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 20th; the typical Vermont waterfall is about 30 feet. The water comes down as a tiered waterfall, falling in several distinct steps one after another. It falls in 8 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. Sterling Brook carries 2 recorded waterfalls, and Sterling Brook Gorge is the tallest of them.
There are 22 recorded waterfalls in Lamoille County. Bingham Falls, a 90-foot tiered waterfall, is about 2.7 miles away. Sterling Brook Cascade, a 15-foot block waterfall, is about 3.2 miles away. Smugglers Falls, an 880-foot tiered waterfall, is about 3.8 miles away.
Sterling Brook Gorge is located at 44.5386° N, 72.7190° 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.