Rancheria Falls
Rancheria Falls sits near Huntington Lake in the Sierra National Forest. We took quite a detour to see this waterfall as we headed home from Yosemite back in 2002, but it was a pleasant diversion from the precipitous granite wilderness of Yosemite Valley. Although we gave it a lukewarm reaction to the falls (which in its own right is quite pretty), it was probably due to the fact that Yosemite's cliff diving cataracts stole the thunder away from this one. Nonetheless, the 1-mile hike (each way) to the falls was pleasant though we did manage to miss the turnoff for the falls' car park which led to us getting lost for a few minutes. The detour we took to get here left Hwy 41 in the northern outskirts of Fresno before joining Hwy 168 as it went into the Sierra National Forest. The drive persisted for about 90 minutes before we eventually made it to the Huntington Lakes area. From there, a dirt road led to a well-established car park area for the falls. Then, we took a mostly level mile-long hike to get towards the falls. However, it was difficult to get an all-encompassing view of the 150ft falls as we were too close to it. Moreover, some brave folks scrambled towards the top of the falls, which we opted not to do.
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