Wilderness and Columbine Falls (Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA)

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Wilderness and Columbine Falls

Wilderness Falls and Columbine Falls as seen from Colter Bay

Wilderness and Columbine Falls are powerful snowmelt waterfalls found in Waterfalls Canyon, which sits across Jackson Lake from the Colter Bay complex. You'll want a telephoto lens or some powerful zoom on your camera to capture this pair of mammoth waterfalls fed by the melting snow.

Unless you have boat access, I'm not sure how else you can get closer to these waterfalls safely. All we did was check out the falls from the shores of Jackson Lake by the Colter Bay Lodge. But we weren't successful getting a closer look nor did we even make an attempt since we had to drive to Salt Lake City the day we were here.

I've devoted a page to this pair of waterfalls instead of clumping them into the Other Grand Tetons Waterfalls page because this pair is certainly much bigger than the wimpy ephemeral cascade variety that I put on the other page.

Directions: The Colter Bay turnoff is within Grand Tetons National Park a little over 4 miles north along US89 of Jackson Lake Lodge and over 5 miles north of the Jackson Lake Junction.

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