Tennessee
Cummins Falls
68 mi from Nashville · ~2.0 hr drive
No height recorded
Cummins Falls is a named waterfall in Tennessee — about 68 miles from Nashville, TN. Full visit details below.
- State
- Tennessee
- Nearest city
- Nashville, TN · 68 mi · ~2.0 hr drive
- Coordinates
- 36.2490°, -85.5699°
From Wikipedia: Cummins Falls is a waterfall on the Blackburn Fork River and is located in southern Jackson County, Tennessee. By volume, it is the eighth largest waterfall in Tennessee. The falls, with a total height of seventy-five feet, consist of two drops. The first has a plunge drop of fifty feet, ending in a shallow pool. The second has a cascade drop of twenty-five feet into a larger, deeper pool, or "swimming hole". In 2010, Cummins Falls was named "Tenth Best Swimming Hole in America" by Travel + Leisure magazine. Excerpt from the Wikipedia article on Cummins Falls, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Visiting Cummins Falls
The exact location is at 36.2490°, -85.5699° — 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 Nashville, TN — 68 miles away (~2.0 hr drive).
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Sources
Location and tag data for Cummins 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.