Tennessee

Piney Creek Falls

44 mi from Chattanooga · ~1.3 hr drive

No height recorded

Piney Creek Falls is a named waterfall in Tennessee — about 44 miles from Chattanooga, TN. Full visit details below.

Nearest city
Chattanooga, TN · 44 mi · ~1.3 hr drive
From Wikipedia: Piney Creek Falls is a 95 feet (29 m) waterfall located along Piney Creek, a mile or so above its confluence with Cane Creek. A trail leads an overlook above the falls. There is no trail to the base of the falls which can only be accessed by rappel or a rugged hike up the Piney Creek Gorge. The falls are located near Spencer, Tennessee in Fall Creek Falls State Park. Excerpt from the Wikipedia article on Piney Creek Falls, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Visiting Piney Creek Falls

Trip planning

The exact location is at 35.6732°, -85.3840° — 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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Public data

Location and tag data for Piney 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.