Bull-of-the-Woods
Cascades
250’
high Bull-of-the-Woods Cascades
This is very difficult to
photograph. You need a sky-hook to hang
out in mid-air to see it.
This shot was taken from
about a mile away along the old abandon Elizabethtown Ditch...
Which is really the best
place I know of to photograph it or even to just see it, because Bull-of-the
Woods Canyon is so steep that mountain goats are the only things that can climb
it and there is no trail...!!!
beta facts:
name- Bull-of-the-Woods Cascade
height- Approx. 250’
elevation- 10200’
GPS coordinates- ±36°36.294’N 105°24.938’W
flow- perennial
best season- late May and early June
accommodations- Wheeler Peak Wilderness
ownership- Carson National Forest
access- see the story below “essay bro”
nearest town- Red River is about 7 miles
North of here
fun fact- people who never leave the trail,
never see this waterfall
essay bro
This is a very high and beautiful cascading
set of waterfalls. The best way to
experience these falls is to watch for the old abandon Elizabethtown Ditch
shown on the map below. It no longer
looks much like a ditch... well here it kind-of-does... you will find it just above the third set of
switchbacks in the Middle Fork Lake Trail.
Just walk on this old abandon ditch grade northeast of the trail for a
hundred yards or so... until you see the Bull-of-the-Woods Cascades all white
and foamy, across the Middle Fork Canyon behind you. It looks especially good in late May and
Early June. In fact the rest of the year
it doesn’t look like much.
Right-click-save-as
to make yourself a copy of our map below
To see a larger, updated and
more detailed map of this entire Wheeler Peak Area, click here: http://www.dougscottart.com/hobbies/waterfalls/TaosMtnsSEquad.htm
and here: http://www.dougscottart.com/hobbies/waterfalls/TaosMtnsMap.htm
Enhanced USGS 7.5’ topo map
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