South Creek Falls (Sequoia National Forest, California, USA)

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South Creek Falls

South Creek Falls is an attractive roadside waterfall that you might notice if you're westbound on Road 99. But rather than seeing the falls out your car window in a fleeting moment of rubbernecking, a better way to experience the falls is to find parking at the limited car park at the top of the falls.

You can't see the waterfall from up here, but you can walk along the road (just make sure you're not in the way of traffic) and along the canyon rim until you get good views of the falls (like you see pictured on this page).

As much as this falls entices you to get closer to its base for a closer look, I haven't tried going down to there, nor would I want to. The cliffs are deceptively steep as the loose rocks gathered at the base of the cliffs would attest. If you choose to risk it by going down, you're on your own to make it back up (if you can).

Like most snowmelt-fed waterfalls, the falls is at its widest in late Spring. I reckon if you come later in the season, this falls probably loses much of its luster.

Directions: The limited car park mentioned above (there's a chain-linked fence make it pretty obvious) is about a half-mile west of the bridge over the Kern River. This is about 22 miles from the northern extreme of Lake Isabella on Road 99 (Sierra Way).

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Old school photo of the falls taken in 2002

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