Waterfalls in California
Falling water, mapped to the roads that reach it. Some run all year; some only after a storm, and the record says which.
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375 waterfalls are published in California. The list below holds the 144 best-documented.
- Vernal Fall97 m drop
- Phantom Falls50 m drop
- East Snow Mountain Falls670 m drop
- Middle Cascades206 m drop
- Wapama Falls392 m drop
- Quaking Aspen Falls
- Tueeulala Falls279 m drop
- Three Chute Falls
- Ribbon Fall491 m drop
- Bridalveil Fall188 m drop
- Tokopah Falls
- Royal Arch Cascade380 m drop
- Upper Yosemite Fall440 m drop
- Darwin Falls
- Burney Falls35 m drop
- Alamere Falls
- Huntington Falls34 m drop
- Staircase Falls310 m drop
- Feather Falls125 m drop
- Sentinel Fall590 m drop
- Horsetail Fall470 m drop
- Mossbrae Falls
- Lower Yosemite Fall98 m drop
- Deer Creek Falls
- Snow Creek Falls650 m drop
- Whitney Canyon Waterfalls
- Sisquoc Falls
- Volcano Falls
- Fossil Falls
- Mist Falls
- Nobe Young Falls
- Leavitt Falls
- Pywiack Cascade180 m drop
- Waterwheel Falls
- Silver Strand Falls175 m drop
- Hedge Creek Falls
- Paradise Falls21 m drop
- Carlon Falls
- Triple Falls
- Roaring River Falls
- Chilnualna Fall
- Stevenson Creek Falls
- Corlieu Falls
- McWay Falls
- Bunnell Cascade
- Silver Spray Falls
- Rainbow Falls
- Minarets Falls
- Nojoqui Falls
- Rainbow Falls
- Foresta Falls
- LeConte Falls
- Middle Falls
- Nevada Fall181 m drop
- Grizzly Falls
- Horsetail Falls
- Chagoopa Falls366 m drop
- Wildcat Falls190 m drop
- Alder Creek Falls
- Horsetail Falls
- Adobe Falls
- Angel Falls
- Lehamite Falls360 m drop
- Bassi Falls
- Tip Toe Falls
- Upper Falls
- Rancheria Falls
- Illilouette Fall110 m drop
- Potem Falls
- Blue Canyon Falls
- Coon Falls13 m drop
- Sempervirens Falls
- Moss Grotto Falls7 m drop
- Black Rock Falls
- Berry Creek Falls
- Rancheria Creek Falls10 m drop
- Preston Falls
- Crevice Falls20 m drop
- The Cascades
- Diana Falls6 m drop
- White Cascade
- Tufa Falls
- Suspended Boulder Falls7 m drop
- Sardine Falls
- Grand Chasm Falls18 m drop
- Ravine Falls23 m drop
- Maidenhair Falls
- Trillium Falls3 m drop
- Slippery Falls
- Lower Switzer Falls10 m drop
- Rancheria Falls
- Chinquapin Falls
- Harding Canyon Falls
- Tamarack Falls16 m drop
- Tehan Falls
- The Cascades
- Abrigo Falls4.5 m drop
- Golden Falls
- Lower Picket Creek Falls
- Horsetail Falls
- Peter's Creek Falls
- Garlic Falls
- Roaring Rift Falls6 m drop
- Upper Switzer Falls10 m drop
- Ravine Twin Falls6.1 m drop
- Ladder Falls6.1 m drop
- Schirmer Cascade61 m drop
- Cascade Falls
- Murietta Falls33 m drop
- Thalehaha Falls24 m drop
- California Falls
- Alder Creek Slides
- Camino Falls
- Ladder Falls14 m drop
- Hollow Falls14 m drop
- Leontine Falls40 m drop
- Peppermint Creek Falls46 m drop
- Ortega Falls11 m drop
- Basin Falls
- Bonita Falls30 m drop
- Crevice Falls9.1 m drop
- Historic Dam
- Red Rock Falls
- Lower Ravine Falls12 m drop
- Cooper Canyon Falls8 m drop
- Little Phantom Falls38 m drop
- Tuolumne Falls
- Little Nellie Falls
- Jawbone Falls
- Ribbon Rocks Falls9 m drop
- Ravine Twin Falls14 m drop
- Panther Creek Falls47 m drop
- Crevice Twin Falls41 m drop
- Western Falls37 m drop
- Twin Falls
- Schirmer Falls29 m drop
- Silver Apron
- Ranch Falls48 m drop
- Beatson Falls32 m drop
- Dorr Canyon Falls10 m drop
- Black Star Canyon Falls
- Silver Falls6 m drop
- White Swift Falls18 m drop
- Silver Falls