Burgess Falls is a cascade waterfall on Tennessee’s Falling Water River within Burgess Falls State Park. There the river drops about 136 feet into a broad limestone gorge whose steep walls rise roughly 100 to 200 feet around the falls. Below the waterfall, the river continues downstream to Center Hill Lake. The sharp contrast between the falls’ stepped flow and the gorge’s sheer rock has made Burgess Falls one of the best-known natural features in this part of Tennessee.