Upper Bubbling Spring Branch Falls is a 30-foot waterfall on Bubbling Spring Branch in Haywood County, North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge region. It lies about 11 miles northwest of Brevard and roughly 28.9 miles southwest of Asheville as the crow flies.
At 30 feet it is on the modest side for North Carolina, where the typical waterfall with a recorded height stands around 50 feet; it ranks 201st of 288. By form it is a cascade, descending over a series of rock steps rather than in a single drop.
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. Bubbling Spring Branch carries 3 recorded waterfalls, and Upper Bubbling Spring Branch Falls is the tallest of them.
Haywood County holds 23 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Lower Bubbling Spring Branch Falls, an 18-foot slide waterfall, is under a mile away. Mount Hardy Falls, a 100-foot horsetail waterfall, is under a mile away. Bubbling Spring Branch Cascades, a tiered waterfall, is under a mile away.
Upper Bubbling Spring Branch Falls is located at 35.3006° N, 82.9119° 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.