Kentucky
Eagle Creek Falls
65 mi from Knoxville · ~1.9 hr drive
No height recorded
Eagle Creek Falls is a named waterfall in Kentucky — about 65 miles from Knoxville, TN. Full visit details below.
- State
- Kentucky
- Nearest city
- Knoxville, TN · 65 mi · ~1.9 hr drive
- Coordinates
- 36.8436°, -84.3435°
From Wikipedia: Eagle Falls is located in Cumberland Falls State Resort Park in McCreary County, Kentucky, United States. Water from Eagle Creek descends 44 feet before landing on the rocks below on the Cumberland River shoreline. Eagle Falls can be accessed by hiking Trail 9 located on Kentucky Route 90 in the Cumberland Falls State Park. The trail to Eagle Falls is 2.5 miles one direction(2.4 km) and includes some of the best views of Cumberland Falls. Excerpt from the Wikipedia article on Eagle Falls (Kentucky), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Visiting Eagle Creek Falls
The exact location is at 36.8436°, -84.3435° — 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 Knoxville, TN — 65 miles away (~1.9 hr drive).
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Sources
Location and tag data for Eagle Creek 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.