The Cascades
Carroll County, New Hampshire
Your visit at a glance
- Waterfall height
- Not recorded
- Location
- Carroll County, New Hampshire
- Access status
- Partial guide: conservation area trail; the name The Cascades is not used by the sources
- The walk
- Probably under half a mile each way; measured distance not given
- Ground & access
- Easy woodland trail beside the brook, uneven in places. Rocks are slippery.
This listing is a cascade on Shannon Brook between Twin Falls and the Falls of Song, along the Brook Walk in the Castle in the Clouds Conservation Area. Published guides name Roaring Falls, Twin Falls, Whittier Falls, Harriets Cascades, Emerald Pool Falls and Bridal Veil Falls along the walk, but none uses the name The Cascades, so the exact named feature is not confirmed. Park at the hiker parking at the top of Ossipee Park Road, cross the fields toward Shannon Pond and follow the trail down Shannon Brook past Roaring Falls and Twin Falls. Continue downstream on the Brook Walk. Return the same way.
Plan your visit
Brook Walk along Shannon Brook in the Castle in the Clouds Conservation Area, from the Ossipee Park hiker parking
World Waterfall Database places Twin Falls no more than a quarter mile from the parking; the original point is about 0.2 km farther downstream. Castle in the Clouds lists the whole Brook Walk as 0.8 miles.
Easy woodland trail beside the brook, uneven in places. Rocks are slippery.
Where to start
Hiker parking at the top of Ossipee Park Road across from the bottling plant entrance, or the trailhead on Route 171.
Timing & water
Trails open sunrise to sunset year-round. LRCT lists closed trail sections near the Brook Walk; check the LRCT property page before you go.
Before you go
Castle in the Clouds says the estate grounds and trails are open sunrise to sunset year-round. No hiking fee is stated.
Visitor informationVisit sources
More waterfalls nearby
Within 40 straight-line miles. Road and trail distances will differ.
- Whittier FallsPartial guide: LRCT lists closed trail sections near the Brook Walk whose exact location was not confirmedCarroll County, NH0.1 miNW
- Emerald Pool FallsPartial guide: LRCT lists a closed trail section near the Brook Walk whose exact location was not confirmedCarroll County, NH0.1 miS
- Twin FallsPartial guide: LRCT lists a closed trail section near the Brook Walk whose exact location was not confirmedCarroll County, NH0.1 miNW
- Roaring FallsPartial guide: LRCT lists a closed trail section near the Brook Walk whose exact location was not confirmedCarroll County, NH0.2 miNW
- Bridal Veil FallsPartial guide: LRCT lists a closed trail section near the Brook Walk whose exact location was not confirmedCarroll County, NH0.2 miS
- Falls of SongPartial guide: LRCT lists a closed trail section near the Brook Walk whose exact location was not confirmed50 ft (15.2 m) · Carroll County, NH0.2 miS
- Lower FallsPartial: town park trail; this listing is probably the lower Beede fallsCarroll County, NH11 miNW
- Beede FallsRoute and parking researchedCarroll County, NH11 miNW
- Lower FallsCarroll County, NH13 miNW