Sawtelle Falls

Penobscot County, Maine

Your visit at a glance

Waterfall height: Not recorded
Location: Penobscot County, Maine
Access status: Short trail and pull-off documented by two visitor sources
The walk: About 0.5 mile one way
Ground & access: Old road becoming a narrow, partly overgrown trail; no official maintenance seen. Steep, risky bank below the falls.

Sawtelle Falls is a 12-foot, two-tier horsetail on Sawtelle Brook. From the pull-off just after the bridge, follow the unsigned trail on the same side of the road, heading downstream (east). It starts as an old logging road and narrows. After about 0.5 mile the trail curves right to a small bluff at the top of the falls. The bank down to the base is steep; the view from the top is the safer choice.

Plan your visit

Pull-off after the Sawtelle Brook bridge on Scraggly Lake Road to the top of Sawtelle Falls

New England Waterfalls and Maine by Foot both give about 0.5 mile one way from the pull-off to the falls.

Old road becoming a narrow, partly overgrown trail; no official maintenance seen. Steep, risky bank below the falls.

Where to start

Wide pull-off on the right just after the Sawtelle Brook bridge on Scraggly Lake Road, about 1.5 to 1.6 miles north of Grand Lake Road. Scraggly Lake Road leaves Grand Lake Road 6.6 miles west of Shin Pond.

Timing & water

Dirt access road. The guidebook author describes the trail as easy to follow in 2017.

Before you go

Listed as free (as of 2017). New England Waterfalls says the land is most likely private, with visitors appearing welcome.

Visitor information

Visit sources

More waterfalls nearby

Within 40 straight-line miles. Road and trail distances will differ.

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Waterfall location

Penobscot County, Maine.

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