About Lisa Falls
Lisa Falls was one of the shorter waterfall excursions that I did while touring the Salt Lake City area on Memorial Day Weekend in 2017. As you can see from the photo above, it appeared to have just a couple of tiers spilling somewhat sideways down a granite-like rock face. But while making the drive up Little Cottonwood Canyon, I swore that there was more to this waterfall than what that photo revealed as I might have glimpsed other parts of its overall drop from the road. Indeed, it seemed like the accessible part of the falls was merely a teaser to its overall features, but I sensed that such hidden qualities of the falls would only be revealed to people like prepared abseilers climbing or descending the adjacent granite cliff face by the falls or those who managed to hike or climb up to a higher vantage point on the opposite side of Little Cottonwood Canyon. In fact, this waterfall had more of a local feel to it because its trail was unsigned and probably could be easily missed if one were to drive by without any prior research or knowledge of this place. That said, its short trail length also made it pretty friendly for some kids as well as the odd well-dressed individuals to take time out of their day to recharge here.
From the unsigned trailhead (see directions below), I followed a somewhat obvious path through the vegetation as it climbed towards some creek overflow that ultimately came from Lisa Falls. After barely a quarter-mile or less, I then started to see the falls to my left so I crossed the stream towards the pile of boulders strewn about the base of the falls at a clearing in the vegetation. It was here that I managed to get right up to the falls as well as look back across Little Cottonwood Canyon towards the impressive peaks on the other side. In addition to the people that I shared the falls with, there were also big squirrels moving about probably looking for scraps of human food. In less than 45 minutes, I was back at the car (and a good chunk of time was spent taking pictures and just soaking in the atmosphere of the falls). So I’d imagine one could easily spend even less time here than I did.
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