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Big Falls

Sullivan County, Pennsylvania

Your visit at a glance

Waterfall height
Not recorded
Location
Sullivan County, Pennsylvania
Access status
Partial guide: final descent is a steep user trail
The walk
About 0.77 mile on Grassy Hollow Road, then a steep user-trail descent of about 150 feet
Ground & access
Easy gravel road walk, then a steep, unmaintained descent with loose rock and mud. Not suited to inexperienced hikers. No cell service.
PA Bucket List: Big Falls, Twin Falls and Lewis Falls on SGL 13

Big Falls is a 25-foot falls in a deep gorge on Heberly Run in State Game Lands 13. From the gate and parking area at the end of Jamison City Road, walk up Grassy Hollow Road, a rough gravel road above the creek. You can hear the falls from the road but not see them. At a user-made Big Falls sign on a tree, an unblazed user trail drops steeply down the gorge side to the creek. Return the same way. Twin Falls and Lewis Falls are farther upstream on the same road.

Plan your visit

Grassy Hollow Road gate near Jamison City, up the gated game lands road, then a steep user trail down to Big Falls on Heberly Run

PA Bucket List gives 0.77 mile up Grassy Hollow Road from the gate to the user-made Big Falls sign; Go Waterfalling gives 0.6 mile from the gate. The descent to the creek is about 150 feet of elevation; no distance is given for it.

Easy gravel road walk, then a steep, unmaintained descent with loose rock and mud. Not suited to inexperienced hikers. No cell service.

Where to start

Large parking area by the gate at the end of Jamison City Road, published at 41.319345, -76.343301. From Jamison City, continue straight on Jamison City Road past the Game Commission building; the pavement ends before the lot. Grassy Hollow Road beyond the gate may be open or closed depending on hunting seasons; PA Bucket List advises against driving it.

Timing & water

Pennsylvania Game Commission rules require 250 square inches of blaze orange during hunting seasons on State Game Lands. Grassy Hollow Road is muddy in spring and icy in winter.

Before you go

No fee is mentioned.

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

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Sullivan County, Pennsylvania.

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