Falls Detail: Cascading down from the hills just south of the Town of Nackawic is the Coac Stream. Located between Upper Queensbury and Day Hill the creek is the main drainage for Coac Lake and several wetlands located deep in the high plateau to the east. This unusual name is Maliseet for pine tree in the distance and as the name suggest there are numerous large pine trees found along the ridges and escarpments shrouding this beautiful creek.
The geology in this area is predominantly granite. The kind of granite that when it is cracked open is dark blue in the center. Granite is so predominate that there is small hamlet of Granite Hill only kilometers away down the road.
To see Coac Falls, drive along Route 105 south from the junction with Route 605 in Nackawic, passing route 610 to Upper Caverhill until crossing Coac Stream a distance of approximately 6 km. The Lower Caverhill Road (old logging road) is approximately 1000 meters south of the stream on the left. Park along the highway and start hiking up the Lower Caverhill Road until meeting a woods road on the left. An old decayed pine tree blocks this road, but follow it until coming to a cable across the road. At this point there is a crossroads. Take the right hand road and follow it as it follows a ridgeline in a gentle left hand arc until reaching a road on the right. Follow this road until coming to an ATV trail on the left. This trail heads down into the ravine to the falls. The sound of the falls will can be heard from this distance. Total distance of approximately 3 km.
Visit Detail: We drove a couple hundred meters up an old woods road (Lower Caverhill Road) and parked the car and from here began a leisurely walk along old abandoned logging roads twisting and turning following the ridges to an ATV trail leading down 30 meters into the ravine containing Coac Falls.
I was the invited guest of Paul Inman, Stan Ebbet and Richard & Grace Beazley who have all visited the falls previously. I was glad to be tagging along because without exact directions, these magnificent waterfalls would be very difficult to locate.
Jeff & Melissa McCarthy informed me of the waterfalls this summer and so I drove up to the area in September looking for them. I stopped at a restaurant in Nackawic and asked if anyone knew about the falls and the answer was unanimous, they knew about Coac Falls but had no idea how to get to them.
Coac Falls are simply spectacular. It is one of those waterfalls that when you see them for the first time you are carried away with their ambience. At 21 meters Coac Falls would be among the higher waterfalls in the province and one of the most beautiful.
Have you ever been into Long Falls? They are located behind Long Lake 3 or 4 KMs. I have the co-ordinates if you would like to find them, you can drive a truck or ATV right within 200 yards or so then walk down a path to see them. There is one small one about 5 meters, then down the brook 50 meters there is a stepped one probably 30 or 40 meters. There is 3 small hunting camps right beside them. A lot of people have heard of them but not to many can find them. I have pictures of Coac Falls when the water was really high a few weeks ago and they were spectacular! Awesome site!
you are right thank you for allowing people to go on private land to see such a wonderfull sight
I am looking forward to seeing these falls on my next hiking trip! Thank you for sharing this and for this site! It’s a great resource. We went to see the Fall Brook falls this past weekend and now I am eager to see more of nature’s beauty!!
We have visited quite a few of the waterfalls on this website. Thank you for all the info. These falls we did yesterday, although it was frozen, it was very impressive, we want to go back in the summer time. Keep up your awesome work on this website.
Coac Falls is so beautiful. I have visited many times and in the summer we usually swim in there. Beautiful stop when we take the bikes up!
A group of four of us snowshoed in to look for this falls over the Christmas holidays (Dec 2012). We had a good outing but did not find the falls. We found the directions lacking in required detail. The final section gives no indication of the distance to the ‘ATV trail’ or how far it then is to the falls. We found several possible trails but none of them were right. We ran out of daylight and had to turn back, we may have been fairly close. The falls may have been frozen and so listening for them was no good. The Lower Caverhill Road has no identifying signage on its junction with Hwy 105. When you start in you go past several trails off on the left before finding the ‘right’ one. The directions do not mention this or indicate how far in the correct turn-off is. I would estimate at least 250-300 m.
Bless to have grown up with Coac Falls as part of so many great hikes with my grandmother. Well worth the walk in from the River.
Here are the GPS directions…
•The log road that meets Route 605 (sorry I meant to get the civic address) Latitude/Longitude: N45 58’ 791” / W67 09’ 721”
•We parked our car (in the clear cut fresh Feb.2013) and the ATV trail Latitude/Longitude: N45 58’ 954” / W67 09’ 595”
•Follow the trail and turn right at the fork in the trail Latitude/Longitude: N45 59’ 477” / W67 09’ 341”
•Take a sharp right down the hill to the falls on the trail Latitude/Longitude: N46 00’ 064” / W67 08’ 946”