Tokopah Falls
Tokopah Falls is a waterfall in California, at a recorded elevation of 2,471 m. Koontz Pinnacle stands 4,145 m to the east-southeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is The Watchtower, a peak 0.4 miles away.
The story
Tokopah Falls, also known as Tokopah Valley Falls, is a 1,200-foot (370 m) cascading waterfall in Sequoia National Park, California. The falls are formed as the Marble Fork of the Kaweah River slides down a huge granite headwall of the glacial Tokopah Valley. Although the falls flow powerfully during the snow melt of late spring and early summer, it is usually a trickle by autumn, occasionally drying up completely during poor snow years. The falls are accessible by a fairly flat 4.1-mile (6.6 km) roundtrip hike from Highway 198.
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Wikidata Q23950171, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2,471 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- The Watchtower: 0.4 mi
- Lower Tokopah Dome: 0.9 mi
- Santa Cruz Dome: 1.1 mi
- Alta Peak: 2.2 mi
- Mount Silliman: 2.3 mi
- General Sherman Tree: 3.8 mi
- Chief Sequoyah: 4.0 mi
- Congress Group: 4.1 mi
- McKinley Tree: 4.2 mi
- Cattle Cabin: 4.3 mi
- Wall Spring: 5.9 mi
- Slide Spring: 6.5 mi
- Granite Spring: 6.5 mi
- Big Fern Springs: 6.7 mi
- Hidden Spring: 9.2 mi
- Upper Buck Creek Falls: 4.2 mi
- Lower Buck Creek Falls: 4.5 mi
- Panther Creek Falls: 5.2 mi
- Marble Falls: 6.7 mi
- Tamarack Falls: 7.5 mi
- Stephen Mather memorial plaque: 5.5 mi
- Shorty's Crowley Canyon Cabin: 6.4 mi
- Old Ranger Station: 7.7 mi
- Shorty's Williams Meadow Cabin: 9.1 mi
- Alles Cabin: 10.1 mi
- Pinewood Picnic Area: 4.8 mi
- Halstead Meadow Picnic Area: 5.1 mi
- Hospital Rock Picnic Site: 7.6 mi
- Stony Creek Picnic Area: 8.6 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 13.6 mi
- Valhalla: 6.5 mi
- Windy Cliffs: 15.3 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 22.3 mi
- Muro Blanco: 22.7 mi
- Window Cliffs: 23.2 mi
- General Grant Grove Section Kings Canyon Nat: 12.6 mi
- Cobble Knoll Recreation Area: 18.7 mi
- Slick Rock Recreation Area: 19.3 mi
- Horse Creek Recreation Area: 21.1 mi
- Lake Kaweah Recreation Area: 21.1 mi
- Giant Forest Museum: 5.4 mi
- Three Rivers Historical Museum: 16.0 mi
- Sandy Cove Beach: 16.8 mi
- Jumping Rock: 17.1 mi
- Homer Ranch Preserve: 20.8 mi
- Dry Creek Preserve: 22.4 mi
- Natural Arch: 24.8 mi
- Natural Bridge: 24.9 mi
- Kern Hot Spring: 18.4 mi
- Kearsarge: 24.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.4 miles of Tokopah Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Koontz Pinnacle | ESE 113° | 4,145 m | 11.2 mi |
| Black Kaweah | ESE 115° | 4,140 m | 10.9 mi |
| Pyramidal Pinnacle | ESE 113° | 4,116 m | 11.2 mi |
| Kaweah Queen | ESE 111° | 4,074 m | 11.0 mi |
| Centennial Peak | E 84° | 4,026 m | 11.4 mi |
| Lawson Peak | ESE 109° | 3,999 m | 10.6 mi |
| Triple Divide Peak | E 98° | 3,839 m | 9.1 mi |
| Glacier Ridge | E 86° | 3,767 m | 7.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:33 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:37 | 19:39 | 20:17 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:19 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:04 | 16:03 | 16:43 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 28 | 30 | 34 | 38 | 46 | 54 | 61 | 60 | 55 | 45 | 35 | 27 |
| Precip in | 8.7 | 7.9 | 6.4 | 3.2 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 3.6 | 6.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lodgepole, 2 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Apr–Jul — fullest in May, leanest in Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 6.1 | 9.7 | 12.8 | 42.4 | 91.5 | 91.0 | 42.9 | 8.1 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 3.4 | 5.0 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Marble Fork Kaweah R AB Horse C NR Lodgepole CA, under a mile away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
Inside the official boundary of Sequoia National Park.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/928925142
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