Mill Pond Falls

Snaking northwards through the dense suburbs of Newington, Mill Brook reaches manicured parkland in the center of town where it feeds a small pond before spilling some 15 feet over a glistening rocky outcrop.

Mill Pond Falls is perplexingly billed in town literature as the “smallest natural waterfall in the United States”, an absurd superlative which surely grew out of tongue-in-cheek whimsy. Even still, the waterfall is honored each year with a special festival, a yearly remembrance of the early days when Mill Pond Falls animated the machinery of an old saw mill at the heart of Newington’s fledgling economy.