El Porvenir Falls
El Porvenir Falls
is roughly 600 feet high and during wet years it often times flows with more
volume… more white and frothy
beta facts:
name- El Porenir
Falls
height- 600 feet est.
elevation- 9000’
GPS coordinates- ±35°44.444’N 105°25.981’W
flow- seasonal
season- Spring is higher flow for more
white and frothy
accommodations-campgrounds are nearby
ownership- Santa Fe National Forest
access- State Hwy 65 to El Porvenir Campground and Trailhead
nearest town-Las Vegas is about 12 miles southeast
of here
fun fact- This place knocks my socks off…!!!
essay bro
I have not found a more beautiful place in
all “the Land of Enchantment” ….!!!!!!!!
There are many waterfalls here but it takes a lot of “off-trail”
bushwhacking to see the higher ones up Cascade Creek, Cielo Creek, Porvenir Creek and Hermit Creek. I was amazed that there seemed to always be a
downed tree to provide a “dry” crossing, near each one of the many “wet” creek
crossings that the trail makes. Our
shoes and pants stayed dry during a mid-May trek in 2008.
We found that many steep, small side canyons
cascade over high cliffs as they pour into Beaver Creek at the bottom of El Porvenir Canyon during wet times. Some of these high trickling falls can be
seen from the trail while others can only be visited after a vigorous
“off-the-trail” climb. We estimate the
highest of these high waterfalls to be about 600 feet high. It is a beauty.....! ! ! AND it tends to have a more significant
waterflow than any of the other side stream tributaries. Some locals we visited with refered to this amazing - 600 feet high waterfall as “El Porvenir Falls.”
Therefore, we call this tributary “El Porvenir
Creek.” Please see it on our map
below. Later this spring we hope to give
El Porvenir Falls an official measurement.
Right-click-save-as
on our map below, to print your own “hand-held” copy for your hike
Enhanced USGS topo map
Send questions and comments to dscott@themarblesculptor.com