The Cascade des Tufs rises at the bottom of a typical reculée in Baume-les-Messieurs in the Jura department. Reculées are narrow valleys bordered by limestone cliffs and forming a dead end. The reculée is closed by cliffs 803 ft (245 m) high, the highest in Jura. Close to Les-Planches-prés-Arbois after a short walk in the forest, the Cascade des Tufs reveals its cool waters in summer and its frozen curtains in winter. It is the Cuisance river that takes its source in the reculée to sprout from the cavities dug in the rocks.