About “Cascade Creek Falls”
“Cascade Creek Falls” was a name I made up for this waterfall (hence the quotes) as it was one that I never expected to see. You see, when I did the the hike to the neighboring Terraced Falls, I expected to see people on the trail given that there were at least 4 or 5 vehicles parked at the Cascade Creek Trailhead. However, when I did the entire hike without seeing one person, and there was only one car left at the trailhead when I returned, I was left wondering where all those people went. So when I looked around the trailhead, I managed to find a different path that followed along Cascade Creek. And eventually, that narrow trail led me down to an impressive cascade, which you can see pictured at the top of this page! It was definitely bigger than any one of the cascades seen on Cascade Creek during the Terraced Falls hike (I’m guessing it was on the order of at least 100ft in cumulative height), and it possessed an interesting twisting and turning characteristic so I felt compelled to give this waterfall its props by coming up with this page.
Given its unsigned nature, it was hard to tell if this waterfall had a more legitimate name. It didn’t appear on any of my maps nor did it appear on Google Maps as of this writing. From what I could tell, this waterfall didn’t even appear on my copy of the book The Guide to Yellowstone Waterfalls and Their Discovery
The informal trail kept going downstream as it eventually leveled out amongst a bunch of fallen trees. At this point, further scrambling was all off-trail though there were some faint paths here and there, but I was pretty much on my own at that point. And after about a quarter-mile from the Cascade Creek Trailhead, I was downstream enough to look back upstream at a more distant view of the so-called “Cascade Creek Falls”. This vantage point exhibited the twisting nature of Cascade Creek over the impressive cascade though it didn’t seem like there was reasonable creekside access for a swim or for wading further upstream to climb parts of the waterfall itself.
So after having my fill of the cascade from this spot, I scrambled my way back to the narrow trail, then climbed back up to the trailhead. Overall, this short half-mile round-trip scramble (though I only needed a quarter-mile round trip to reach the first and closer view) took me about 30 minutes. I bumped up the difficulty score due to the off-trail scrambling and the dropoff hazards in some spots.
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