Mount Damper Falls, 74-meter waterfall in Waitaanga Conservation Area, North Island, New Zealand.

Mount Damper Falls is a waterfall in Waitaanga Conservation Area on New Zealand's North Island where Mount Damper Stream plunges from a sandstone cliff into a deep pool. Native trees and plants grow thickly around the base and along the stream banks in this protected natural area.

Government surveyor L C Sladden became the first European to find the falls in 1900 while surveying the Waro Survey District. They were rediscovered around 1909, when a wild boar dragged settler H W Wilkinson's prize sheep dog Lassie over the edge to its death. The falls lie near the Tihi-Manuka trail, once a main Maori route between the Taumaranui area and the north Taranaki coast.

The waterfall sits near the Tihi-Manuka trail, a traditional path that Maori people used to connect the Taumaranui region with the north Taranaki coast.

The track starts about 1 km from the Okau and Mangapapa Roads intersection on State Highway 43 and crosses private land; the Department of Conservation maintains it. Access is closed to hunters from 1 August to 31 October each year for the lambing season, so time your visit outside those months.

The falls were rediscovered around 1909 after Lassie, a prize sheep dog belonging to early settler H W Wilkinson, was dragged over the edge by a wild boar. The access track crosses private farmland and is maintained by the Department of Conservation, which closes it to hunters from 1 August to 31 October each lambing season.