Waterfall Hikes Near Bound Brook, NJ

The closest falls to Bound Brook are small ones: Pottersville Falls on the Lamington River, about 15 miles northwest, and Maple Falls, a seasonal cascade on the Lenape Trail in Essex County's South Mountain Reservation, about 18 miles northeast. The big drop is the Great Falls of the Passaic in Paterson, 32 miles northeast, where the river falls 77 feet through basalt and can be watched from Haines Overlook Park or Mary Ellen Kramer Park. Two entries are Delaware River rapids rather than single drops: Scudders Falls, a Class II+ wave train near Ewing about 28 miles southwest, and Foul Rift below Belvidere, about 35 miles west. Most of the rest of the 21 falls on the page sit 40 to 50 miles out, many of them across the Delaware in Pennsylvania.