Hen Wallow Falls is a 90-foot fan waterfall in the Cosby area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where the creek is only about two feet wide at the lip and fans out to roughly 30 feet at the base. It is reached by a 4.3-mile round-trip hike on the Gabes Mountain Trail.
Its 90 ft drop is taller than about 67% of the 775 waterfalls we track.
The falls are fed by Hen Wallow Creek. It lies in Cocke, Tennessee. The site is on public land managed by Great Smoky Mountains National Park (NPS).
This is a moderate hike waterfall: a longer day hike, roughly one to several miles each way. Reaching it takes a moderate walk, so budget time and pack water before you set out. The walk to the main viewpoint runs about 4.3 miles round trip. The nearest town is Cosby.
When to go: Spring; year-round. Flow usually peaks after snowmelt and heavy rain and tapers through late summer — a quick look at recent streamflow and the managing agency's conditions page can save a wasted trip.
