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Kitchen Creek Falls sits within the typically hot and dry Cleveland National Forest about 50 miles east of San Diego. Seeing the falls flowing requires quite a bit of timing as its flow can easily become nothing by late Spring or early Summer (it really depends on how much winter rain has fallen in Southern California). But when it does flow, the falls are pretty impressive.Now despite the fact that the falls sits quite close to the Interstate 8, getting a view of the falls is not easy. You'll have to hike for about 2 miles along the Pacific Crest Trail before leaving the trail at an easy-to-miss spur to scramble towards the top of the falls and then ultimately to the base of the falls. It's this scramble that's not easy as you'll frequently brush against hard desert vegetation and you'll have to descend a steep gully just to get to the bottom - all the while hoping you don't get too lost as the "trail" is not easy to follow. Moreover, you'll want to really keep an eye out for rattlesnakes here. From there, you'll have to cross the stream and do some additional rough scrambling until you finally get a satisfactory view of the falls.
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