The 10 Best Cliff Jumping Spots in Massachusetts

Massachusetts has 20 documented cliff jumping spots on CliffScout, 16 of them community-verified. These are the standouts — ranked by verification, documentation, and community activity, not hype. Every listing links to a full page with photos, heights, and access notes.

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   Bash Bish Falls Verified

   Mount Washington

   Bash Bish Falls, Massachusetts' tallest single-drop waterfall at roughly 60 feet, sits in Bash Bish Falls State Park in Mount Washington, straddling the MA/NY line. Trails remain open and popular — the Copake Falls, NY trailhead… Full guide →

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   Bash Bish Falls Verified

   Mount Washington

   Massachusetts' tallest single-drop waterfall, straddling the NY border in Mount Washington State Forest. Free parking off the access road leads to a 15-20 minute walk to the falls, mostly downhill (so allow more coming back up).… Full guide →

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   Peck's Falls Verified

   Adams

   Peck's Falls sits in Greylock Glen, a short steep hike (about 0.1-0.2 mile) down from parking on Gould Road or the Greylock Glen Resort lot. Two drops make up the site: a 12-foot upper falls with tiered plunges into a shallow… Full guide →

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   Lower Peck's Falls Verified

   Adams

   Lower Peck's Falls sits along a steep, quarter-mile spur trail off Gould Road in Adams, near Greylock Glen, with informal parking along the road shoulder or the Glen resort lot. The brook drops roughly 50 feet through a narrow… Full guide →

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   Becket Quarry (Becket Historic Quarry and Forest) Verified

   Becket · jumps 20–80 ft

   This flooded 1940s-era granite quarry, now part of the Becket Land Trust's Historic Quarry and Forest, has cliffs ranging from about 10 to 80 feet over water reportedly as deep as 200 feet in spots. Park at the trailhead off… Full guide →

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   Becket Land Trust Historic Quarry Verified

   Becket · jumps 20–100 ft

   The former Chester-Hudson granite quarry in Becket, Massachusetts (not Chester, as some listings mislabel it), now the Becket Land Trust's Historic Quarry & Forest, open dawn to dusk off Quarry Road. Park at the marked oval… Full guide →

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   Cascade on South Brook Verified

   Cheshire

   Cascade on South Brook is reached via a short, well-defined path of well under a tenth of a mile from a free parking area on Notch Road, in Cheshire's Stafford Hill Wildlife Management Area. The brook drops about 8 feet over a… Full guide →

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   Deerfield River – Stillwater Bridge Verified

   Deerfield · jumps 10–40 ft

   This spot sits at the Stillwater Bridge over the Deerfield River, reached via I-91 to exit 24, then Routes 5/10 and 116 to Stillwater Road, where a small lot leads to a beach area. From the beach, swim the mild current to reach… Full guide →

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   Klondike Quarry (Bay View, Gloucester) Verified

   Gloucester

   One of several flooded granite quarries left behind by Cape Ann's early-1900s stone industry, in the Bay View section of Gloucester. Take Route 127 through Lanesville toward Bay View, turn onto Quarry Street, and follow it to its… Full guide →

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    Gloucester Quarries (Lanesville) Verified

    Gloucester

    This pin sits on one of several flooded granite quarries tucked in the woods of Lanesville, a village in Gloucester, Massachusetts — a cluster locals know individually as Barker's Pond, Long Pit, Children's Quarry, Vernon's Pit,… Full guide →

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