Hector Falls
Warren County, Pennsylvania
Your visit at a glance
- Waterfall height
- Not recorded
- Location
- Warren County, Pennsylvania
- Access status
- Partial guide: unsigned trailhead and unofficial footpath
- The walk
- About 1 mile each way (PA Bucket List figure)
- Ground & access
- Gravel access road, then an unofficial woodland footpath and a short descent around boulders to the base.
Hector Falls is an 18 to 20-foot falls in a small rock grotto in Allegheny National Forest, Warren County. From the parking area, walk past the gate and follow the pipeline access road. At a fork 0.6 mile in, stay left. Where the road ends at the pipeline, take the footpath to the right for the last 0.3 mile. The path has no paint blazes but carries white diamond-shaped arrow markers. It reaches the top of the falls; work counterclockwise down around the boulders to the base. Return the same way.
Plan your visit
Forest road parking southwest of Ludlow, gated pipeline access road, then a marked footpath to Hector Falls
PA Bucket List gives almost exactly one mile from the parking area: 0.7 mile on a pipeline access road, then 0.3 mile on a footpath.
Gravel access road, then an unofficial woodland footpath and a short descent around boulders to the base.
Where to start
Parking area on a forest road roughly 3 miles southwest of Ludlow and Route 6, published at 41.69585, -78.98074. The road is rutted in spots. The trailhead is not signed; the Times Observer notes the trailhead lacks a marker.
Timing & water
The stream flows well only after sizable rain. Forest roads can be muddy or unplowed in winter.
Before you go
No fee is mentioned.
Visitor informationVisit sources
More waterfalls nearby
Within 40 straight-line miles. Road and trail distances will differ.
