Roaring Rift Falls
Roaring Rift Falls is a waterfall in California, at a modelled elevation of 717 m. Granite Mountain stands 1,998 m to the north-northeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Suspended Boulder Falls, a waterfall less than a tenth of a mile away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 4.7 miles off.
What the record says
- Height
- 6 m
How to reach it
- 4.7 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 11 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Echo Mountain: 0.3 mi
- West Fuji: 0.5 mi
- Muir Peak: 0.9 mi
- Mount Lowe: 1.7 mi
- Mount Markham: 2.2 mi
- Resevoir: 0.3 mi
- Mount Lowe Railway Historical Marker: 0.3 mi
- Echo Mountain House: 0.3 mi
- Mt Lowe Observatory Ruins: 0.5 mi
- Miner's hut: 0.6 mi
- Mount Lowe Park: 1.0 mi
- Charles S. Farnsworth Park: 1.1 mi
- Robert M McCurdy Nature Center: 2.4 mi
- Charles White Park: 2.5 mi
- Washington Park: 3.0 mi
- Mount Wilson Observatory Museum: 3.4 mi
- JPL Building 186 (Theodore von Kármán Museum and Auditorium): 3.5 mi
- USC Pacific Asia Museum: 4.5 mi
- Kidspace Children's Museum: 4.5 mi
- Lizzies Trail Inn: 4.6 mi
- Unincorporated Mural: 2.6 mi
- Williamson Gallery: 4.8 mi
- Student Gallery: 4.8 mi
- Lion Dogs: 5.5 mi
- Pan: 5.5 mi
- Altadena Community Garden: 2.5 mi
- Marcy's Vegetable Garden: 2.8 mi
- Marcy's Garden: 2.9 mi
- Bev's Vegetable Garden: 2.9 mi
- Bev's Native Garden: 2.9 mi
- Walsh Home (Beverly Hills 90210): 1.2 mi
- Dilan's Home (Beverly Hills 90210): 1.2 mi
- Wisteria Vine, Worlds Largest Blossoming Plant: 4.2 mi
- Boone Sculpture Garden: 4.4 mi
- Sierra Madre Memorial Cannon: 4.7 mi
- Rubio Canyon: 0.5 mi
- The Cobb Estate: 0.8 mi
- Casa Del Caballero: 0.9 mi
- Andrea Wilson Triangle: 1.9 mi
- Henninger Flats: 1.9 mi
- Red Box Picnic Area: 3.5 mi
- Paul Little: 4.2 mi
- Switzer Picnic Area: 4.3 mi
- Art Center Food Garden: 4.8 mi
- Arcadia Wilderness Park: 5.9 mi
- Not Much of a Spring: 7.7 mi
- Silk Tassel Spring: 7.7 mi
- Doe Spring: 9.1 mi
- Baughman Spring: 10.2 mi
- Deer Spring: 12.2 mi
- Suspended Boulder Falls: 0.0 mi
- Thalehaha Falls: 0.0 mi
- Grand Chasm Falls: 0.0 mi
- Moss Grotto Falls: 0.1 mi
- Ribbon Rocks Falls: 0.1 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 4.1 mi
- Spa Palace: 13.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.9 miles of Roaring Rift Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Granite Mountain | NNE 13° | 1,998 m | 11.6 mi |
| Roundtop | NNE 15° | 1,908 m | 10.3 mi |
| Mount Hillyer | NNE 30° | 1,881 m | 11.3 mi |
| Strawberry Peak | N 357° | 1,879 m | 5.2 mi |
| San Gabriel Peak | NNE 22° | 1,878 m | 2.6 mi |
| Mount Disappointment | NNE 13° | 1,819 m | 2.7 mi |
| Mount Lawlor | N 9° | 1,807 m | 4.4 mi |
| Vetter Mountain | NE 39° | 1,783 m | 7.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:31 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:31 | 20:08 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:18 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 06:55 | 16:09 | 16:47 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 47 | 46 | 49 | 52 | 59 | 68 | 74 | 75 | 70 | 62 | 53 | 46 |
| Precip in | 7.7 | 8.3 | 5.1 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 1.9 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MT Wilson CBS, 3 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Jan–Apr — fullest in Feb, leanest in Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 19.2 | 30.8 | 25.4 | 13.1 | 6.6 | 3.3 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 3.3 | 8.4 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Arroyo Seco NR Pasadena CA, 4 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/619625062
Day trips start here
- Pasadena · 3 mi
- La Cañada Flintridge · 4 mi
- San Marino · 6 mi
- Arcadia · 7 mi
- South Pasadena · 7 mi
- Glendale · 8 mi
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