Massachusetts
Chapel Falls
50 mi from Hartford · ~1.4 hr drive
No height recorded
Chapel Falls is a named waterfall in Massachusetts — about 50 miles from Hartford, CT. Full visit details below.
- State
- Massachusetts
- Nearest city
- Hartford, CT · 50 mi · ~1.4 hr drive
- Coordinates
- 42.4820°, -72.7598°
- County
- Franklin
From Wikipedia: Chapel Brook of Franklin County, Massachusetts, is a tributary of the South River and the name of a 173-acre (70 ha) open space preserve located along the brook. The brook, est. 3.79 mi (6.10 km) long, is located in southeast Ashfield and southwest Conway. It drains into Poland Brook, thence into the South River, the Deerfield River, the Connecticut River, and Long Island Sound. The Chapel Brook reservation, managed by the non-profit conservation organization The Trustees of Reservations, is located in Ashfield and contains Chapel Falls, a series of three waterfalls on Chapel Brook, measuring 10 feet (3.0 m), 15 feet (4.6 m) and 20 feet (6.1 m) high; and Pony Mountain est. 1,400 feet (430 m), a 100-foot (30 m) open granite cliff face and popular recreational rock climbing site. Excerpt from the Wikipedia article on Chapel Brook, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Visiting Chapel Falls
The exact location is at 42.4820°, -72.7598° — open in Google Maps for driving directions from your location.
Before you go: check current conditions with the appropriate land manager — state parks department, U.S. Forest Service ranger district, or National Park Service unit. Trail access, parking, water levels, and seasonal closures all vary. Several waterfalls in our database are seasonal and may run dry between mid-summer and the next rainy season.
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Stay nearby
Driving in? The nearest documented metro is Hartford, CT — 50 miles away (~1.4 hr drive).
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Sources
Location and tag data for Chapel Falls comes from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL license) ; the Wikipedia article linked above provides additional history. We do not modify the underlying data — this page presents what's already publicly recorded. To suggest corrections, see our methodology page or contact us.