Thundering Brook Falls is a waterfall on Thundering Brook in Rutland County, Vermont, in the Northeastern Highlands region, with a total height of about 133 feet. It lies about 7.3 miles east of Mendon and roughly 82 miles northwest of Manchester as the crow flies.
At 133 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Vermont’s 158 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 11th; the typical Vermont waterfall is about 30 feet. The tallest single drop is 71 feet. The water comes down as a tiered waterfall, falling in several distinct steps one after another. It falls in 4 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 16 recorded waterfalls in Rutland County. Shaw Hill Brook Falls, a tiered waterfall, is under a mile away. McLaughlin Falls, a 38-foot tiered waterfall, is about 7.2 miles away. Tinker Brook Cascades, a cascade waterfall, is about 9.4 miles away.
Thundering Brook Falls is located at 43.6807° N, 72.7865° 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 position was verified on aerial imagery. Details on trails, parking and access have not been documented for this waterfall yet.