Milkranch
Falls
50’ high Milkranch Falls near Silver City
beta facts:
name- Milkranch Falls upper and lower
height- the upper and lower falls are both
50’ high
elevation- 6750’
GPS coordinates- ±32°51.580’N 108°02.560’W
flow- milkranch spring flow goes dry during
dry times
season- March and July/August… only during
wet times
accommodations- none
ownership- public – Gila National Forest
access- a mile hike on old jeep road then on a nice flat creek bed
after a 4½-mile gravel road that turns into a jeep road
nearest town- Hanover is 7 miles SW of here
fun fact- yeah, this falls does go dry… but
it is WAY COOL….!!!! And it is a DOUBLE FALLS
essay bro:
Milkranch…. What a name. Somebody is going to have to ask the
local Silver City Museum about where this name came from. Right near Milkranch Spring, which is
shown on the map below, there is some ruins of an old homestead. Maybe they had a ranch with milk cows.
Anyway this is a way cool place and these
are really amazing waterfalls. It
is just too bad that they don’t flow all the time. We had a hard time following this topo map but it did get us
to the right place. The road gets
worse and worse till we stopped about a half of a mile from the road’s
end. We walked down a half-mile of
jeep road then down the “hardpan” solid rock creek bed passed Milkranch Spring
to the falls. There are two falls
real close together so it seems like it’s over a hundred feet high.
Check your Gila National Forest map. Because there are 4 ways to drive in
close to Milkranch.
Enhanced
National Geographic 7.5’ topo map
one
mile = approximately2½ inches
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