This waterfall is somewhat hidden from the Backbone Trail alongside the Kanan Road, which links Hwy 1 to the 101 Freeway through the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. As we made the brief 1-mile return hike and scramble to the falls, we could definitely hear how noisy it can get from the highway traffic on Kanan Road, which is perched nearby above the trails here.

After parking the car (see directions below), follow the Backbone Trail downhill past a creek (usually dry) and towards a trail sign at a fork. The Backbone Trail continues to the right, but you can take a trail of use to the left. After a minute or two on this branch trail, you'll have to look for one of several scrambling trails that branches to the left. Some trial and error might be needed in order to find the scramble you're most comfortable with, but once you're at the bottom, it's pretty much a scramble upstream along or in the stream or over some deadfalls and termite-ridden trees towards the base of the falls.

The total hiking distance for just this falls is about a mile round trip. Short but sweet, in my mind.