Favorite childhood spot 40 years ago (Lower Calf Creek Falls)

My family often went camping in southern Utah when I was a kid in the ’70s. At that time, few people knew about Lower Calf Creek Falls. We backpacked the short distance in, set up small tents, and stayed overnight, falling asleep to the sound of the water. It was a favorite childhood memory, and […]

Whitewater Please remember to pay for parking!

Please pull up and get your parking envelope put the money in and park, then deposit the envelope on the way up to the falls. This allows us access to this magnificent falls without a full time Forest Ranger. Bring a lunch, it has picnic tables and I often see hummingbirds, chipmunks, Tennessee warblers and […]

Proxy Falls

Proxy Falls is located in Central Oregon on the old McKenzie highway near the town of McKenzie Bridge, Oregon. This photography was taken in October 2013 before the seasonal rains began. 0 CommentsOnly logged in users can post a comment Please login or sign up to comment

Roger’s Pictures of Watson Falls

We visited Watson Falls in the early summer of 2009. Watson falls is found on Watson Creek in the North Umpqua River drainage, in southern Oregon. Its Height is 302 feet and it is 20 feet wide. The falls hurtle over a cathedral amphitheater shaped wall of basalt, as you see in the pictures. It […]

Passaic Falls (Paterson Great Falls)

Passaic Falls (also known as the Paterson Great Falls) was perhaps the most unusually-situated waterfall we could recall given that it was smack in the middle of a lot of urban developments that…

Watkins Glen Waterfalls

The Watkins Glen Waterfalls were merely the excuse for me to visit the Watkins Glen itself, which was said to be the most scenic of all the glens in the Finger Lakes region of Western New York…

Medina Falls

Medina Falls was kind of an obscure waterfall we took a brief detour for while driving from Albany to Niagara Falls. Perhaps what made this waterfall experience memorable was that Oak Orchard Creek…

Kaaterskill Falls

Kaaterskill Falls was an impressive two-tiered waterfall in the Catskill Mountains said to have a cumulative drop of about 260ft, where the upper drop was said to be 175ft. We were curious about…

Rainbow Falls (Ausable Chasm)

Rainbow Falls in Ausable Chasm was a powerful segmented waterfall with a reported height of 91ft. Prior to our visit, we were warned about the steep price of the paid tours and that we would be…

High Falls (Chateaugay)

The High Falls on the Chateaugay River drew us with its impressive three- or four-tiered 120ft drop as it progressively fanned out wider the further it dropped. Since we decided to drive from…

Moxie Falls

Moxie Falls was the last waterfall amongst the New England states that we visited before we crossed over the border into Quebec, Canada. It was a very appealing waterfall because it had a force…

Dunn Falls

Dunn Falls seemed to be one of those waterfalls where I really had to work to see. Even though our sampling of waterfalls in the state of Maine was very small, I somehow got the sense that this…

Snow Falls

Snow Falls was actually an unexpected waterfall we stumbled upon on a day when we had to improvise our itinerary after the US Government Shutdown nixed our plans to go to Acadia National Park…

Silver Cascade

Silver Cascade was one of the few true roadside waterfalls we managed to see during our New England trip in 2013. Given its ease of accessibility, Julie and I remembered seeing numerous other…

Arethusa Falls

Arethusa Falls was perhaps our favorite waterfall in the White Mountain area, and it might quite possibly be our favorite waterfall in the New England area so far. The falls was tall at a reported…

Ripley Falls

Ripley Falls was one of the more unique waterfalls I saw in the New England area. What differentiated this one from most of the others was that it featured a slide that somewhat twisted on its way…

Crystal Cascade

Crystal Cascade was perhaps the one waterfall that totally exceeded my expectations. It was a two-tiered waterfall that possessed a shape and character about it that made it very photogenic…

Glen Ellis Falls

Glen Ellis Falls was an attractive waterfall that I tried to squeeze in late in the day while the sun hadn’t quite set yet. Even with my late start on the hike just before 5pm in October, I was…

Waterfalls of the Flume

The waterfalls of The Flume (more formally the Flume-Pool Loop) were really more of an excuse to talk about what we had read in the literature to be perhaps the most popular hike in New Hampshire…

Sabbaday Falls

Sabbaday Falls was a multi-tiered waterfall twisting within a narrow gorge that was said to be carved out from the last Ice Age. It was said to have a cumulative drop of 35ft though that seemed…