Ojo Sarco Falls
Ojo Sarco Creek Takes a 20 - foot splashing plunge.
Three and seven tenths of a mile southeast
of Dixon state road 580 will begin climbing a steep hill. Don’t climb it. Find a place to park off the road
and walk over to the small stream beside you.
Follow this tiny creek up stream to waterfall land. The lowest falls, pictured above is the
highest. However a dozen or more
waterfalls hide within the steep canyon above.
This is as fine of a waterfall lover’s hike as there is. The canyon above will make you think you are
in the South Pacific… and unless you are willing to “swim hike” you will have
to perform some very risky rock climbing.
A half-mile north of Ojo
Sarco Falls is a 1000-foot deep, sheer walled box
canyon known as the Embudo Box. Within this gorge are many nice but hard to
get to falls. An especially nice one is
at the Trampas Creek confluence. This area of Embudo
Creek is a much overlooked backcountry lovers paradise
that is rich with hungry Brown Trout.
(see
also Cañada del Agua Falls, Trampas Falls,
Enhanced
USGS 7.5’ topo map
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