Cascade Falls

Mt Tamalpais / Fairfax, California, USA

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Cascade Falls is a pretty diminutive 20ft waterfall, but it was one of the “easier” waterfall hikes we did in Marin County, and it seemed there were a lot of memorable things about the excursion itself.

For starters, the waterfall sat within the Elliott Nature Reserve, which itself was at the end of a road within a residential area. We didn’t expect to find something this naturesque with civilization close by, and even then we were pleasantly surprised by the absence of urban blight that usually accompanied places close to development. In fact, we were even surprised by a wild turkey that dashed out in front of us during our hike.

I’ve read that there’s also an upper waterfall beyond the main falls, but we didn’t do it. From what we could tell, the trail didn’t go beyond the waterfall pictured above.

The 2-mile round trip hike along the High Water Trail undulated on some minor hills with some minor dropoff exposure and some minor rock hopping on tributary streams. After crossing a bridge over Cascade Creek, we turned right and follow the trail alongside the stream until we reached the falls itself. We believed that this was the shortest way to go though there seemed to be plenty of other ways to do this hike.

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Tagged with: tamalpais, marin, fairfax, san francisco, bay area, central coast, california, waterfall, elliott nature reserve, high water trail



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