I was just looking at Backpacker's list of the highest points in each state. Being from SC, I was reading about Sassafras Mountain when I saw this line:

"walking the Foothills Trail ... You'll pass ... the highest waterfall drop in the East"

Hmmm. But the one right down the road from me here in Dawson County bills itself as the highest waterfall in the east. A quick google search however and I discovered that:

Upper Whitewater Falls is the highest in the east: http://www.cs.unca.edu/nfsnc/recreat...waterfalls.pdf

No, Fall Creek Falls in the Smokies is the "highest waterfall east of the Rockies": http://www.smokymountainnews.com/iss...tn_voices.html

These guys say Crabtree Falls is the "highest waterfall east of the Mississippi": http://www.aria-database.com/cgibin/falls.pl?59

Toccoa Falls is also the "highest waterfall east of the Mississippi"!!
http://www.toccoafalls.edu/consider/falls.htm

No wait... Taughannock Falls is: http://www.bbonline.com/ny/halsey/

But how can that be? Clearly Buckeye Falls is: http://volweb.utk.edu/volweb/school/unicoi/ucounty.htm

Of course Tahquamenon is! http://www.netcore.ca/~james/midwest/turtlecreek.html

But as I know for a fact, Amicalola is the "tallest east of the Mississippi": http://www.gastateparks.org/info/amicalola/


I realize that there are different definitions for a "waterfall", but this sounds like a lot of marketing to me.