About Cascada de Penaladros
The Cascada de Penaladros (or more accurately, Cascada de Peñaladros) was where the rushing Río San Miguel dropped some 15m into a lush ravine. Unlike most of the waterfalls on our visit to Spain in 2015, this falls had a very healthy flow. As you can see in the photo above, the waterfall was surrounded by vegetation so I suspect this was one of the healthier drainages in the area. In addition, what really stood out to us about this seemingly ordinary waterfall was the backdrop consisting of the mesa-like cliffs that we’d typically expect to find in the mesas and buttes of the American Southwest.
In any case, for all intents and purposes, this waterfall was essentially a drive-to waterfall for us. There didn’t seem to be safe access to get down to the river’s level and perhaps see the falls from its base. Thus, this was one of those look-but-don’t-touch waterfalls.
Even though this was pretty much a drive-to waterfall, it turned out that the greater challenge for this falls was actually spotting it while driving a very narrow one-lane road with hardly any pullouts. We actually overshot the falls before I turned back and only noticed it on the return. Plus, I was nervous about the lack of pullouts on the single-lane road so if any car was going the opposite direction as us and we encounter each other, I’m not sure what we would do. Luckily, we didn’t face this situation, but I’m sure that potential would always be there for anyone wishing to visit the falls (see directions below for more details on this). In fact, it seemed like this was one of the more obscure waterfalls we had visited throughout Spain so this lack of notoriety further increased the chances of getting to experience the falls by ourselves.
Finally, as it was getting late on the day of our visit, we nearly called it a day and skipped this waterfall because we were suffering from waterfall fatigue after having already visited Cascada de Orbaneja del Castillo, Cascada La Mea, and Cascada de Pedrosa de Tobalina all while we were making the long drive from Burgos to Bilbao. However, when we noticed a sign pointing the way to this waterfall, that was when I made the executive decision to just go for it. There was also a roadside waterfall that we had stopped for somewhere near the turnoff leading to Cascada de Penaladros so that further strengthened our resolve to overcome the waterfall fatigue. Besides, we were aware of the driving distances and how much time it really took to get from place to place in the mountains so it was unlikely we’d be coming back this way anyways.
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