North America
Waterfalls of North America
38 destinations across North America, ordered by significance. Filter by activity to find the ones that run what you want to do.
Yosemite Falls
North America's tallest waterfall drops in three stages — upper, middle cascades, and lower — off the granite wall of Yosemite Vall…
Takakkaw Falls
Its Cree-derived name simply means 'it is magnificent,' an apt description for one of Canada's tallest waterfalls, fed by meltwater…
Bridalveil Fall
Often the first waterfall visitors see entering Yosemite Valley, its free-falling water is light enough that shifting winds sway it…
Nevada Fall
The Merced River explodes off a granite step above Vernal Fall, reached via the strenuous Mist Trail that climbs alongside both fal…
Vernal Fall
A clean, wide sheet drops over a sheer granite lip into a broad pool, reached by granite steps carved directly into the cliff that …
Virginia Falls
Nearly twice the height of Niagara, a limestone spire called Mason's Rock splits the South Nahanni River in two as it plunges into …
Lower Falls of the Yellowstone
Twice the height of Niagara, the Yellowstone River drops into the yellow-walled Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, the geological fea…
Johnston Canyon Falls
A catwalk trail bolted directly into the limestone canyon walls leads past a lower falls and on to a taller upper falls, one of the…
Athabasca Falls
Though modest in height, the entire Athabasca River is forced through a narrow slot of hard quartzite sandstone, carving potholes a…
Della Falls
One of Canada's tallest waterfalls tumbles down a remote Vancouver Island valley reachable only by boating the length of Great Cent…
Basaseachic Falls
One of Mexico's tallest waterfalls drops in a single free fall into the rugged Sierra Tarahumara, part of the vast Copper Canyon re…
Amicalola Falls
The tallest cascading waterfall east of the Mississippi tumbles down a series of rock staircases beside a 604-step metal stairway t…
Multnomah Falls
A two-tiered drop framed by a historic stone footbridge is Oregon's most-visited natural attraction, pulling in more than two milli…
Helmcken Falls
The fourth-largest waterfall in Canada plunges over a volcanic rim into a horseshoe canyon so deep that a roadside viewpoint gives …
Akaka Falls
A single sheer drop through rainforest thick with wild orchids, bamboo, and banyan trees is reached via a short paved loop trail on…
Tamul Falls
Two rivers, one running clear turquoise and one silt-laden, merge just above the lip and plunge together over a broad limestone cli…
Montmorency Falls
Standing 30 metres taller than Niagara, the falls mark the spot where British general James Wolfe landed troops before the decisive…
Snoqualmie Falls
A short drive from Seattle, the falls have generated hydroelectric power continuously since 1898 from a plant built directly into t…
La Fortuna Waterfall
A single vertical drop off the flank of Arenal Volcano's foothills falls into a cold, boulder-strewn pool reached by a steep stairc…
Taughannock Falls
Free-falling from a rock amphitheatre higher than Niagara, this Finger Lakes drop sits within a gorge whose walls climb 120 metres …
Shoshone Falls
Taller than Niagara and once nicknamed the 'Niagara of the West,' this Snake River curtain is at its thunderous best only in spring…
Palouse Falls
Carved by catastrophic Ice Age floods that repeatedly scoured the Columbia Plateau, the falls drop into a stark basalt canyon that …
Tallulah Falls
A series of cascades drop nearly 150 metres in total through a 300-metre-deep gorge that was once a premier 19th-century tourist at…
Horseshoe Falls
The larger and more powerful of Niagara's two main falls curves in a broad crescent on the Canadian side, carrying nearly nine-tent…
Toccoa Falls
Taller than Niagara despite its modest width, this free-falling curtain sits on the grounds of a small Christian college and is rea…
Niagara Falls
Three falls in one — Horseshoe, American, and Bridal Veil — move more water per second than almost any other falls on Earth, funnel…
Nauyaca Falls
A two-tiered cascade on the Barú River drops into one of the Costa Rican Pacific coast's most popular swimming holes, reached by a …
Ruby Falls
Hidden 260 metres below Lookout Mountain inside Ruby Falls Cave, this is the tallest and deepest underground waterfall commercially…
Pulhapanzak Falls
A broad curtain on the Río Lindo drops into a jungle canyon that guides lead visitors behind and even partway down via a canyoning …
Havasu Falls
Mineral-rich travertine dissolved from the canyon walls tints the plunge pool a surreal turquoise-blue, a color that persists year-…
Agua Azul
A staircase of travertine terraces turns the river a milky turquoise-blue as calcium carbonate precipitates out of solution, formin…
Rio Celeste Falls
The startling sky-blue color comes not from dye or minerals dissolved in the water but from the physics of light scattering off sus…
Letchworth State Park Falls
Three separate falls step down the Genesee River as it carves through a 183-metre-deep gorge nicknamed the 'Grand Canyon of the Eas…
Linville Falls
Two drops feed into Linville Gorge, the deepest canyon in the eastern United States, with several short trails leading to overlooks…
McWay Falls
One of very few waterfalls in the world that drops directly onto a beach, this year-round stream free-falls from a coastal bluff on…
Wailua Falls
Twin curtains drop side by side into a wide circular pool just off the highway on Kauai's east side, familiar to many from the open…
Cumberland Falls
One of the very few places in the Western Hemisphere where a consistent lunar rainbow, or 'moonbow,' forms in the spray on clear ni…
Great Falls
Just upstream from Washington, D.C., the Potomac drops through a series of steep, closely spaced cascades into Mather Gorge, a whit…
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