About this spot
Meigs Falls is a roadside waterfall on the Little River in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, viewable from a small pulloff on Little River Road about 13 miles west of Sugarlands Visitor Center. People do swim below it, but the Park Service actively discourages this: rocks are slick, the bottom is impossible to judge, and the area sits among GSMNP swimming spots with a documented history of injuries and drownings. There are no lifeguards anywhere in the park, and parking is a narrow shoulder pullout that fills fast in summer. Precise drop height varies by source and isn't firmly documented. Treat any swimming or jumping here as unofficial and higher-risk than it looks; The Sinks and the Townsend Wye nearby are the area's more established (still hazardous) alternatives.
