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My lovely wife and I just LOVE waterfalls. We go to them regularly. I have a guide book of Waterfalls of Massachusetts by Joseph Bushee Jr., and keep track in the book of which one's we've been to. In our waterfall guidebooks for other states, we also have marked which ones we've visited and have quite a few marked for future visits.

 

I also bookmark waterfall websites. One good one is Waterfalls of the Northeastern United States. It has hundred and hundreds of waterfalls sorted by state, plus tons of other info about waterfalls. It covers New England and New York, plus Washington, Oregon, Alberta, British Columbia, and one waterfall in California. For global coverage: www.worldwaterfalldatabase.com. Another FUN waterfall site is Waterfalls by Jan & Christy Butler, which includes 360° photos of waterfalls in New England plus a few in New York. None of these excellent sites have ALL the waterfalls, but they are still great resources.

 

My lovely wife and I always takes lots of pictures of the waterfalls we visit, and I'm constantly adding them to this page. We just think waterfalls are awesome! So, in reverse chronological order, here are some of our photos of waterfalls we've visited:

 

 

 

 The main falls that you can see from the trail.

 

 The main falls seen from the top.

 

 The falls above the main falls seen from the same location as the photo above.

 

 

 The view from the top.

 

Ripley Falls

Crawford Notch State Park

Hart's Location NH

August 10, 2022

 

The trail in to this falls was a bit difficult. It is full of rocks and scree and roots, quite steep in places and quite wet in others. It took us most of an hour to slowly do the 1/2 mile trail. I'm sure faster hikers could do it in considerably less, but this spectacular falls made it quite worth it the trip no matter how long it took.

 

The main falls in the top photo is what most people see. After laboring the length of the trail to get there, most people don't think of going any further. But I like to also see a waterfall from the top (see Silver Cascade below), so I rock hopped across Avalanche Brook and then scrambled up the very steep incline beside the falls and got to the top after about 10 minutes of very careful climbing. I was well rewarded because not only did I get to see the main falls from the top, but I also got to see something most people don't see: the 3 cascades above the main falls and the mountain view from that vantage point! And on the way down, I also found a very narrow trail back down that was very much easier than the way I went up. 

 

 

 

 

 

 The lower falls.

 

 

 The middle falls.

 

 

 

The upper falls.

 

Slade Brook Waterfalls

 Jim & Evalyn Hornig Natural Area at Lower Slade Brook
Hanover Conservancy

Hanover NH
October 24, 2020

 

The parking area for this hidden gem would have been very difficult to find had I not looked for it in Street View first. There's no sign, no marker, no nothing except a maybe 6" tall capital "P" on a 2" post next to a pair of ruts into the woods right at the end of a guardrail. Very easy to miss. The waterfalls, however, are delightful, even though we went when the water is low. (Everything we read said the upper falls is pretty spectacular during spring melt and after a storm!) The path — appropriately called the Waterfall Trail — is wide enough to walk 2 or 3 abreast, and is a very easy 1/2 mile in.

 

The lower falls is a very gently sloped cascade. The middle falls is a shorter but steeper cascade with the heaviest flow up against the southern bank. And the upper falls is tiered falls dropping into an abrupt right angle turn with the water then going through a very narrow trough to a shallow pool.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bickford Slides - Lower Slide
White Mountain National Forest
Caribou-Speckled Mountain Wilderness
Stowe ME
September 12, 2020

 

The trail up from Brickett Place to the Bickford Slides is fairly steep and rocky. Some of us weren't really sure we wanted to do it, but we persevered and had a very nice (but fairly tough) hike to the delightful Lower Slide, which is a 50' drop in a series of cascades both through narrow rifts in the rock as well as spilling over wide ledges. These 4 photos show the most easily photographable parts of the upper roughly 2/3 of the falls --- it was just too wet and steep to get down to the bottom to shoot the rest.

 

Then we headed up the trail to the Upper Slide (which photos show to be a gorgeous 40' drop that fans out the further down it goes), but the trail turned out to be too difficult for us, so we stopped and had bit of a sit-down on a rather large log next to Bickford Brook and enjoyed a light snack with the sounds of the flowing water and the beauty of the deep woods without sight or sound of anything else even vaguely resembling human. Wonderful!

 

 

 

 

 Taproot Commons Farm Waterfall #1

 

 Taproot Commons Farm Waterfall #2

 

 

 Taproot Commons Farm Waterfall #3

 

 Taproot Commons Farm Waterfall #4

 

Taproot Commons Farm Waterfall
Hilltowns Land Trust
Cummington MA
September 6, 2020

 

Since we went in the early Fall, there wasn't much of a flow, but it was very obvious that this waterfall would be roaring in the Spring during snow melt, going the full width of the ledge in the top photo! It was a little hard to find the parking pull off since it wasn't marked, but with the help of someone at Taproot Commons Farm next door, we got there. And kudos to Taproot Commons Farm for allowing visitors access to their property, where both the trail and the waterfall are located. Just the walk through the woods was delightful — which is why I put the bottom photo in, to show you what it's like there. The woods is an unusual assortment of hemlock, red maple, grey birch, and sycamore with an occasional enormous white pine here and there. We had a delightful lunch to the sound of trickling water, while we sat on the big rocks next to the falls.

 

 

 

 

 

 Mother Walker Falls #1

 

Mother Walker Falls #2

 

 Mother Walker Falls #3

 

Mother Walker Falls #5

 

Mother Walker Falls #6

 

 Mother Walker Falls #6

 

Mother Walker Falls
Grafton Notch State Park
North Oxford ME
May 26, 2016

 

Normally, I wouldn't put so many pictures of a waterfall that is so hard to photograph without obstructions, but most of the photos of it online aren't photos of the actual falls but rather of the stream running over some rocks above the falls. One of those sites even went so far as to say that this waterfall is "not worth visiting." They clearly didn't see the actual falls. If you like waterfalls, it's well worth the short hike in from the parking area, especially since Mother Walker Falls is only 9/10 of a mile from Screw Auger Falls just below on this page.

 

Mother Walker Falls plunges steeply down through a very narrow gorge. Photo #1 and #2 are of the same tier from above and from the side. The following photos follow this lovely waterfall downstream tier by tier.

 

 

 

 

 

Screw Auger Falls first view

 

 Screw Auger Falls full view

 

 Screw Auger Falls small upper falls

 

Screw Auger Falls
Grafton Notch State Park
Newry ME
May 26, 2016

 

This waterfall has been on our bucket list for most of 20 years, and we finally got to see it! The top photo is what you see when you first approach the falls. You can clamber up onto the rocks above it and get a view looking down, but you certainly can't get a full view of the falls from here. But walking down the very wide trail a ways and and out onto the rocky cliff downstream, you can get a full view. The photo, however, is a close-up shot; the actual view is from much further away. Not to mention that I was hanging onto a small tree and leaning over the edge of the cliff to get this shot. The third photo is the much smaller but still delightful upper falls.

 

Screw Auger Falls is probably the most famous and most visited waterfall in Maine. It is very close to the parking area, has wide easy to navigate trails, several descriptive information signs, rock ledges for sunbathing, picnic tables, bathrooms, walking trails going both up- and downstream, a nice wading area for families with young children, swimming for the more daring, and a small but impressive natural stone arch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 23, 2016
Brickett Falls
Chatham NH

 

My lovely wife and I took a week-long vacation at our family's cabin at camp in Maine. While we were there, we used the opportunity to explore several delightful spots that we'd never had time for during the actual camp session. Brickett Falls was one of them.

 

Although the trailhead was a little hard to find (since the directions in the guidebook were wrong!), it was well worth the effort. After a delightful 1.1 mile uphill hike through a variety of woodlands, we emerged from the trees at the bottom of the series of multiple horsetails and slides that make up Brickett Falls. The trail along the falls allows you to hike up beside it and climb out onto the rocks at each of the small falls. Although the highest drop is only 8', we really enjoyed this outing quite a bit. The photos above going down the page are in the order we saw them: from the bottom of the falls to the top.

 

 

 

 

Franconia Notch State Park #1

 

Franconia Notch State Park #2

 

 Franconia Notch State Park #3

 

Franconia Notch State Park #4

 

Franconia Notch State Park #5

 

 

 Franconia Notch State Park #6

 

  Franconia Notch State Park #7

 

 unnamed waterfalls
Franconia Notch State Park
Lincoln NH
August 6, 2014

 

On the walk through the woods along the stream to see The Basin, there's lots of small, unnamed waterfalls. This is just a few of them.

 

 

 

 

 

Stevens Glen waterfall
Richmond MA

April 12, 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Silver Cascade

Crawford Notch State Park
Hart's Location NH

August 13, 2008

 

This is plain and simple the most amazing waterfall I've ever seen. It's not wide, but it sure is tall! Pictured here is just the part you can see from the highway... and it does comes down right to the edge of the road! Then the brook goes under the highway. There's actually a lot more of it that you can't see from here, it goes on for a long, long, long ways up the mountain. Once when I was a teen, some friends and I spent most of a day climbing the falls and I never did get to the top!*

 

Even more amazing is that about 100 yards up the road is another tremendous waterfall just like this one: the Flume Cascade. Not quite as much of it is visible from the road, but it's still mighty spectacular! (See the next photo below.)

 

P.S. Just to give an idea of the scale of Silver Cascade, can you find me in the above picture? 

 

* 5 decades later, I climbed another, much smaller waterfall and easily made it to the top.

 

 

 

 

 Flume Cascade
Crawford Notch State Park
Hart Location NH

August 13, 2008

 

Like I said just above at Silver Cascades, Flume Cascades is literally right next to it. You just walk up the road for about 60 seconds and there it is. It's just as big, just as long, and just as awesome as Silver Cascades... there's just not as much of it visible from the road. Actually, you can see a bunch more of it from the road than is in this picture, but this is the picture I've got so it's what you get to see, alright?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Up above on the other side of the road is a really nice trail that winds around and up the mountain, past some pretty neat cliffs (that have climbers on them regularly), and eventually ends at a fabulous view looking down over Ashfield. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Sanderson Brook Falls

Chester MA

 March 17, 2008

 

When my lovely wife and left our home in the valley to go visit Sanderson Brook Falls one day in the middle of March, it was in the mid-50's at our house. But an hour later when we got to the hilltown of Chester MA, it was in the lower 30's, and the trail was completely covered with at least a foot of snow! (You can see snow through the trees on either side of the falls.) Fortunately, we had plenty of warm clothing with us and the trail was an easy hike. Unfortunately, when we got to the falls, the access trail down to it was very steep, very narrow, very icy, and there was absolutely no way we could possible get down it without ending up in the water. So this is a long-distance photo from the main trail. We're planning on going back to this one, but later in the Spring next time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To see part of the main falls at the bottom, click here.

 

 

 

First, the water flows over the only white granite dam in the entire USA into a small pool before flowing down a small cascade into a smaller pool and then entering the chasm itself (top photo).  Then it winds it's way through the rock trough it's dug over the centuries, creating some wonderful rock formations (middle and lower photos). The Natural Bridge of Natural Bridge State park is a place just below these photos where Hudson Brook has actually drilled it's way through the stone leaving a very cool natural rock bridge above it.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Lost River Gorge

Woodstock, New Hampshire

August 1967

 

I recently unearthed both the prints and the negatives of my first three rolls of film ever!  I took these pictures when I was 11 years old way back in 1967!  I made an exhibit of them in my virtual art museum. (Click here to see the whole thing.) Lost River is a pretty amazing natural phenomena. Over about 3/4 of a mile, the river drops hundreds of feet through a deep rocky gorge. The river is often out of sight underground -- hence the "Lost" part -- and you have to climb down various ladders from the boardwalk into subterranean caves to see all of it! It's awesome! I love this place. This is just three of the smaller falls there.

 

 

 

 unknown waterfall

 

 

 

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