About Cascada del Molino
The Cascada del Molino literally stole the show away from the disappointing Nacimiento del Río Cuervo during our early June visit in 2015. Indeed as you can see from the photo at the top of this page, this understated waterfall on the Río Júcar was still performing while the other one was hardly visible against the karstic rocks beneath. In fact, we weren’t even planning on visiting this waterfall, but when I saw a waterfall sign with the Río Júcar words scrawled on the signposted photo, that planted the seed in my mind that maybe we should consider making a visit. Then, when the Nacimiento del Río Cuervo disappointed us, that pretty much opened up our minds to lingering around a little while longer to see what this waterfall was all about. Needless to say, this act of curiosity paid off!
The word molino means “mill” in Spanish, and I suspect that the building adjacent to the brink of the falls could very well be a mill, which might explain how this waterfall got its name. From what we could tell, we weren’t able to gain any access through the mill in order to get an unusual top-down perspective of the falls. So instead, we had to do the sanctioned way of walking on a longer trail to get to its base.
The hike began from a signposted path right off the narrow access road following the Río Júcar from Tragacete (see directions below), which then quickly descended one long switchback down towards a bridge spanning the Río Júcar. On the opposite side of the bridge was a picnic area. But we continued left as we hiked in an upstream direction to get closer to the waterfall. Since the vegetation was thick around the river, we weren’t able to get any satisfying views of the falls from a distance nor were we able to gain a fruitful perspective of the mini canyon carved out by the river. Indeed, it wasn’t until 15 minutes later that we passed by another pair of picnic tables before briefly climbing right up to the main waterfall to finally get our clean looks at it.
Since the trail ended at a small lookout practically right in front of the waterfall, it was hard to truly get a good perspective of just how big this waterfall was (let alone photograph it since we were so close to it). It turned out that the main drop that we were in front of was probably on the order of 15-20m or so though it looked a lot bigger than that from the road leading up to the mill. Perhaps it was because the Río Júcar cascaded and tumbled for a bit more before continuing its flow as a typical river. In any case, we spent about 45 minutes away from the car so the hiking wasn’t very long at all.
Julie and I were the only ones on the trail until we returned from the hike. That was when there was a family that was using the picnic tables near the bridge. So that kind of attested to how much quieter this waterfalling experience was compared to the Nacimiento del Río Cuervo, which seemed to have non-stop foot traffic. So this was yet another positive for this waterfall over that other more famous one.
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