Waterfall Scout is a directory of public, legally-accessible waterfalls in the United States. We're building it one state at a time — 108 waterfalls across 5 states so far, 108 of them sourced directly from the managing agency's own page.
Every fact — coordinates, height, trail length, fee, whether dogs or swimming are allowed, ADA access — comes from a real, checkable source: the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, a state parks department, a county/regional park authority, or an official state tourism board page. When a fact isn't documented by one of those sources, we mark it as not published rather than estimate it.
We won't invent a height, a trail distance, or a coordinate to fill a gap. We won't claim a waterfall is dog-friendly or swim-friendly without an official source saying so. And we won't republish a trail description scraped from another blog — where we add commentary, it's clearly ours, built from the same official sources linked on each listing.
Fees change, trails wash out, and access rules get updated. If something on a listing is out of date, let us know and we'll check it against the source and fix it.