This view of the falls was as close as I got to the waterfall on Camp Bird Road up from Ouray, Colorado. There appeared to be a route via private property and mining operations with closed gate to the area of what was once Camp Bird Mine from this viewing point. There also appears to be a route via public road closer to or past the falls by going on up Camp Bird Road and making a turn back down canyon after crossing Sneffels Creek before reaching the ghost town of Sneffels, then going on upstream along Imogene Creek towards Upper Camp Bird and Imogene Basin. We had taken that route on a jeep tour from Ouray and over Imogene Pass back in the 1970s. My visit this time was by motor home in the 2000s and so I do not advise to make it over Imogene Pass by motor home, or even as far as the ghost town of Sneffels, rather four wheel drive only would be recommended when weather conditions allow in mid summer. You may be wondering why I would have made it almost to Camp Bird in a large motor home and drizzling rain after you’ve left the Million Dollar Highway and started a steep ascent to some of the more scenic route, including the shelf road where the roadway drops off to one side a sheer cliff straight down to the creek, and overhanging rock with yellow monkey flowers, mosses, watercress and a small waterfall at the shelf road point on this route of the Camp Bird Road. I do not advise doing this in slippery mud and rain conditions in a motor home. However, I do advise consider being driven on a jeep tour, the tourist choice, from Ouray to Telluride.
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