Fall Brook Falls

Can you spot me?

Fall Brook Falls, NB

Fall Brook Falls is reportedly the official highest waterfall in New Brunswick at approximately 100 feet. I made my boyfriend, Chris Travis, do this hike with me on Sunday, May 6th. It turned out to be a beautiful sunny spring day! This waterfall is located near Boiestown. To get here from Fredericton, drive north on Route 8 towards Boiestown and take your left onto Parker Ridge (Route 625). After approximately 4km, take a right onto Bloomfield road. You will cross a bridge over the Southwest Miramichi River. From there continue driving until the road takes a sharp right turn. Do not take the turn, drive straight and this is the County Line Road. Continue your trek until you come to an Irving Forestry gate.

Apparently there is an Irving employee at the gate that charges you ten dollars to use their very well maintained dirt road, but we were lucky and the gate was unmanned! Although we got a free visit, he is suppose to give you directions on how to get to the falls. Trav and I had to solely rely on the directions I found on the waterfalls of nb blog. We had already got that far, I was determined we could find it on our own. While traveling down the dirt road, we spotted a black bear cub running into the bushes beside the road. It was ironic because we had earlier had a discussion about seeing bears in the car on the ride up. We continued along this dirt road until we got to the second bridge crossing a brook. We parked the car along the road just before the bridge. To your left you'll see a logging path heading into the woods. Hoping this was the right trail we started on our journey into the wilderness.

The walk down the old logging road wasn't too long. When you come to the end, there is a steep hill and you can see the beautiful Southwest Miramichi River.

Chris taking a view of the Southwest Miramichi River

 To your right you'll see a sign posted on a tree that says Fall Brook Falls.

Sign at the bottom of the logging road

I jumped for joy when I realized that we were actually on the right route! From here the logging road turns into a footpath that leads you to the falls alongside the bank of the brook. The brook is not deep or wide, but the falls at the end was spectacular and every minute worth the trip out there!

As close as I could get without swimming in the pool of water.  (Also got soaked waiting for the photos to be taken by the spraying water)