Trickling Falls is a 60-foot waterfall on Road Prong in Sevier County, Tennessee, in the Blue Ridge region. It lies about 6.8 miles south of Gatlinburg and roughly 34.4 miles southeast of Knoxville as the crow flies.
At 60 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Tennessee’s 332 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 60th; the typical Tennessee waterfall is about 30 feet. By form it is a block waterfall, wider than it is tall, spilling over a broad ledge.
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. Road Prong carries 2 recorded waterfalls, and Trickling Falls is the tallest of them.
Sevier County holds 37 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Talking Falls, 15 feet high, is under a mile away. Tomahawk Prong Falls, is about 1 miles away. Fort Harry Falls, a 90-foot plunge waterfall, is about 1.2 miles away.
Trickling Falls is located at 35.6222° N, 83.4697° 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.