Pine Swamp Brook Falls
Litchfield County, Connecticut
Your visit at a glance
- Waterfall height
- Not recorded
- Location
- Litchfield County, Connecticut
- Access status
- Roadside view and pull-off documented; walk along a busy highway
- The walk
- A few hundred feet along US 7
- Ground & access
- Road shoulder of a busy highway. Rocks are very slippery.
Pine Swamp Brook Falls is a 30-foot pair of drops in a narrow ravine beside US 7 in Sharon. Coming from CT 128 at West Cornwall, turn left onto US 7 south, drive 0.5 mile and pull off on the right just before the Pine Swamp Brook bridge. Walk up the road a few hundred feet to the bridge; the falls are immediately upstream. Fallen trees can block the view.
Plan your visit
US 7 pull-off south of the Pine Swamp Brook bridge in Sharon, short walk along the road to the bridge
Waterfall Hero gives under 0.1 mile: walk a few hundred feet up the road to the bridge. Not measured here.
Road shoulder of a busy highway. Rocks are very slippery.
Where to start
Small pull-off on the right of US 7 south just before the bridge, per Waterfall Hero. Capacity and rules not checked.
Timing & water
Flows most of the year; strongest in spring.
Before you go
New England Waterfalls listed it as free as of 2016.
Visitor informationVisit sources
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