In keeping (somewhat) with the Who Hasn’t Seen the Prairie/Ocean/Desert threads, what is the highest waterfall you’ve ever seen?
A few years ago, we visited 620 foot Multnomah Falls in Oregon. Very beautiful!
Locally, we have Snoqualmie Falls. It’s 270 feet tall, and is deafeningly spectacular after a heavy winter rain. In the dry summer, not so much, but still cool.
Well, during a heavy rainfall driving on the ridgeline at Smoky Mountain National Park, there were several newly-created streams going down exposed slopes. The exposed slopes were several thousand feet high with quite a downward angle: I wonder what the required angle of attack would be to be counted as a waterfall?
(Other than that, my highest is still in the Carolinas Upland region in general, although I forget exactly where, but it was only a few hundred feet high. Been out West once but somehow missed seeing really big waterfalls. Which I don’t really cry over since waterfalls are the prettiest things in nature, but I like the smaller, more intimate ones.)
Just a local 20 foot one down in Wilkinson county. Don’t get out to waterfall country much, I’m afraid.
Victoria Falls–360 ft.
On a cruise to the souther Caribbean we took a side trip which involved flying past Angel Falls. So I win. 
There’s only one recognized perennial waterfall here in Florida, much to my chagrin. When I get enough money to semi-retire I’m moving to upstate New York where you can’t walk half a mile in the wilderness without hitting a waterfall or five.
Yosemite Falls. Two stage falls that drops a combine distance of 2425 feet.
On preview: Yup. Voyager wins hands down.
I’ve been to Yosemite falls, but I stood underneath Sutherland Falls in NZ, roughly 2000’ in 3 stages. If I recall, it was moderately wet.
The highest I’ve seen is Waimoku Falls on Maui, which is 400 feet high. You have to hike quite a distance uphill to get to it, but it’s totally worth it!
Mooney Falls in Havasupai, Arizona. Approximately 200’. Certainly not the tallest in the world, but an what a trip.
It’s about 2 miles outside an Indian village, which is about 7 miles down in a canyon., which you can only get to by hiking, horse, mule, or helicopter. When you hike out of the village, you come out at the top of the falls. There is a very steep, very slick, “trail” that leads to the bottom. Part of it is tunnels in the cliff, part of it is well cut steps in the rock, part of it is almost straight up and down holding onto chains anchored in the rock and small indentations for toeholds, and then a rickety wooden ladder for the last 15 feet. But, if you can brave that, you can walk and/or swim out to, and behind the waterfall. The pool the water drops into is shallow around the edges so you can walk as close as you want. If you choose to swim, it gets deeper in the center and you can get a heck of a workout swimming against the thundering water. The water is a beautiful blue/green. It is just an incredible experience. Just about everyone that goes hikes down, camps, and visits the falls for a day trip. Since the village is so remote and hard to get to (everything comes in by horse or helicopter - there are no roads), and you have to bring all your supplies for camping, not a lot of people go. And the number of people that brave the trip to the bottom is even fewer. If you are up to it, you will be rewarded with one of the most beautiful places on this earth.
Ditto. Very nice hike to the top.
And I met a guy who jumped Angel Falls 
Niagara.
I’ve seen pictures of that waterfall, oboe, and it’s literally the stuff of dreams. I’ve had dreams about southwestern-esque landscapes with canyony waterfalls and this is the best example of the type of waterfalls in those dreams, (perhaps inspired by it.)
Which is not to say those are my main types of dreams about waterfalls, but that’s for a different thread. Okay, no it isn’t. I’ve had several dreams about the same fictional location: namely, a granite massif about the size of Stone Mountain (but much more weathered such that it looks like separate peaks from far away.) There are several streams that go through it, cutting gaps several hundred feet high but only dozens of feet wide, with lots of random 5-20" high waterfalls in the middle of the gorges. (And the best part of it is it’s only a few hundred feet off the road and no one ever goes there!)
Then, a long time after I had that second type of waterfall dreams, I saw Clark Gully on a topo map and knew that it would have good waterfalls based just on the closeness of the lines. And whoa boy was I correct.
For those who have read this far, Clark Gully is by far the best undiscovered short hike in New York. There is a rim trail, and you can get to a couple decent waterfalls from there, but to really experience it you need to climb up either the first waterfall you see or climb down into the gully from the rim trail (at a “safe” location of course.)
Once you climb into the first waterfall (which would not be possible in the spring melt,) you go into a tight mini-canyon where the stream cut into the underlying rock, and you twist and turn for several dozen feet, climbing up a couple more small waterfalls (which totally reminded me of my dreams.) Then you climb into what seems like a normal upstate NY canyon except it’s a lot steeper so the sides are more foreboding. In fact when you get to the deforested part it feels almost Alpine since the few trees in that section are pines. And you can get to a third major waterfall from inside the canyon that you can’t see except through hiking into it!
Um, probably one in the park around Mount Ranier, which I can’t find info on right now, or Niagara.
Not many know (although I assume you do cause you’re a Doper,) that Taughannock Falls is the highest waterfall in NYS (and if wiki is right, in the Northeast US.)
But Niagara looks taller, partially because of volume and partially because it’s not in an even bigger valley (and my post about looking menacing is true for that valley too but for the opposite reasons of Clark Gully: it’s so big that your eyes are expecting more of a shift when you’re walking, and when your eyes realize that they are in a valley about three times as big as it seems, it’s uncanny (no pun intended.))
Tokin Falls.
Yosemite Falls. Hiked about a third of the trail to the top last spring.
According to the world waterfall database*, the highest one that I know I’ve seen (and have photographic verification of) is Pitchfork Falls near Skagway, AK.
However, there are a couple of higher ones where I know I’ve been in the area and I did see waterfalls in that area, but I’m not sure whether the waterfall listed is the one I saw.
*sites like this make me love the internet
According to the (hee!) World Waterfal Database, Jim Jim Falls in Kakadu is 700ft. My dad was a tour guide in Kakadu when I was a kid, where there’s lots of lovely escarpment and monsoonal rain, so I’ve seen some lovely falls. Litchfield National Park, further south, is much less well-known, but it’s where you go if you want to swim under the falls. Wangi Falls (which has no listing in the WWD!) is the biggest there.
I’ve hiked up Yosemite Falls a couple of times, and hiked down to it once from Yosemite Creek Campground.
Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains is pretty amazing.
As oboelady said, Mooney Falls is truly one of the gems of the Southwest. It was named after James Mooney, who may or may not have died falling from the travertine cliffs at the edge of the falls.
It has been a lifelong dream of mine to see Angel Falls in person. It might happen yet.
