Parlin Stream Falls

Parlin Stream Falls is a 45-foot tiered in Maine, on Parlin Stream. The water falls in 2 distinct tiers.

It's fullest after rain, and flow can drop off during dry spells — plan around recent weather.

Plungeworthy rates Parlin Stream Falls 8/10 — worth the drive. The score weighs its scale, how confidently it's mapped, and its character.

Know what this listing is: Parlin Stream Falls near Jackman is a real two-part cascade — a modest 12-foot upper falls and a more dramatic 45-foot middle falls of mixed horsetails and cascades — but it's one of the least-visited, least-documented waterfalls in Maine, and it has no trail.

It sits on private industrial timberland currently open to public recreational access, with no built trail, no signage, and no official parking. The feature is known mainly through a dedicated waterfall guidebook and word of mouth among Jackman-area anglers and hunters. The one specialist source that describes reaching the middle falls calls the approach a 'challenging and potentially dangerous bushwhack or rock-hop.'

We're not publishing turn-by-turn directions, because none exist to publish — this is an entry for experienced, self-sufficient visitors who already know how to travel off-trail on working timberland, not a destination writeup.

Best treated as a low-water, late-summer or fall trip given the stream-hop approach, and avoided entirely during high spring runoff.