The village is served by Eliot "T" station, part of the Green Line D branch of the MBTA, with rail service inbound into downtown Boston and outbound to Riverside.

Newton Upper Falls is home to the Hemlock Gorge and Echo Bridge, a aqueduct turned pedestrian walkway over the Charles River.

Sullivan Avenue, an unpaved private road in Newton Upper Falls, is the last remaining portion of the ancient highway connecting Boston and Cambridge with Newton and points west in the 17th century (back then it was called Cambridge Village).

Also on Sullivan Avenue is a famous pothole; a geological anomaly where a boulder that was originally pushed down the cliff by a now extinct waterfall got caught and became round.

Over the next 150 years, the water power available at Upper Falls led to the village's steady growth as many more mills were built along that stretch of the river.