Upper Wintergreen Falls is a 70-foot waterfall on Grassy Creek in Henderson County, North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge region. It lies about 8.1 miles south of Etowah and roughly 26.2 miles northwest of Greenville as the crow flies.
At 70 feet it is taller than the typical North Carolina waterfall of about 50 feet, ranking 101st of 288 with a recorded height. By form it is a tiered waterfall, falling in several distinct steps one after another. It falls in 2 drops.
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. Grassy Creek carries 6 recorded waterfalls, and Upper Wintergreen Falls is the tallest of them.
Henderson County holds 20 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Wintergreen Falls, a 20-foot cascade waterfall, is under a mile away. Grassy Falls, a 60-foot slide waterfall, is about 1.6 miles away. Minnehaha Falls, a 110-foot slide waterfall, is about 1.9 miles away.
Upper Wintergreen Falls is located at 35.2002° N, 82.5810° 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.