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Tallest waterfalls in California [1] Rank Name Height Location 1 Yosemite Falls: 2,425 ft (739 m) Yosemite National Park: 2 East Snow Mountain Falls: 2,200 ft (670 m) Eldorado National Forest: 3 Sentinel Fall: 1,920 ft (590 m) Yosemite National Park: 4 Widow's Tears: 1,680 ft (510 m) Yosemite National Park: 5 Ribbon Fall: 1,612 ft (491 m)
McWay Falls is an 80-foot-tall (24 m) waterfall on the coast of Big Sur in central California that flows year-round from McWay Creek in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, about 37 miles (60 km) south of Carmel, into the Pacific Ocean. During high tide, it is a tidefall, a waterfall that empties directly
The 50 miles (80 km) of hiking and riding trails in Garland Ranch Regional Park are popular with riders, hikers, and joggers. One trail leads past a waterfall, and another is an 800-foot high "Inspiration Point" overlooking the valley. The park offers a number of hiking trails such as the La Mesa Trail which leads to the high grassland area.
Uvas Canyon County Park is a 1,147-acre (464 ha) natural park located in upper Uvas Canyon on the eastern side of the Santa Cruz Mountains, west of Morgan Hill, California. The park has several small waterfalls, some of which flow perennially, that feed into tributaries confluent with Uvas Creek.
There are two named waterfalls on North Fork Pacheco Creek, the "Hole in the Rock" waterfall is 12 miles (19 km) upstream from the dam and is located just above the Kaiser-Aetna Road, and a second waterfall called "Pacheco Falls", is a popular hiking destination another 2.5 miles (4.0 km) further upstream.
Scott Creek is a small coastal California watershed draining approximately 75 square miles (190 km 2). [5] It empties into the Pacific Ocean 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of San Francisco. Large waterfalls form impassable barriers on each of the main tributaries.
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Burney Falls is a waterfall on Burney Creek, within McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park, in Shasta County, California.. The water comes from underground springs above and at the falls, which are 129 feet (39 m) high, and provides an almost constant flow rate of 379,000,000 liters (83,000,000 imp gal; 100,000,000 U.S. gal) per day, even during the dry summer months.