Echo Falls, Lichen Falls, Vivian Falls, Box Falls
and Resumidero Falls
see on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKeEnlPEGxo
Some of my friends at 60 foot high Lichen Falls
three ugly bears
in a cave at Lichen Falls
50’ high Echo falls
25’ high Box Falls in the Rito Resumidero Box Canyon
…a beautiful un-named 20’ high waterfall in the Rio Puerco Box
Canyon
My friends spoof as tho they are
falling over the brink of Echo Falls
Lichen Falls
60’ high on the Rio Puerco Echo
Falls 50’ high on Rito Resumidero Vivian Falls 50’ high on Rito Redondo
The upper tier of Resumidero
Falls is 20’ high The middle tier is 15’ high The lower tier of Resumidero
Falls is 30’
Resumidero
Box Falls – 25’ high Echo Falls below and Box Falls
above as seen from the Puerco Box Canyon rim to the south
The
Redondo Box Canyon has numerous falls up to 20’ high Double
Falls drops 30 feet in two tiers
The upper Rio Puerco watershed displays a
host of waterfalls that are second to none.
These waterfalls have sculpted a massive deposit of pink granite. Lichen Falls, the 60’ tall queen of this
group of beauties, is locked in a sheer walled corridor draped with colorful
lichen…best accessed down a very steep but negotiable ravine oozing a seeping
flow directly to her feet, from the northwest.
Your climb in and out will yield rich rewards… and catch Double Falls
while you are close.
The smooth, vertical, granite walls that
engulf 50’ high Echo Falls, reverberate her sounds of many waters. You may access her along with the lowest
un-named 20-foot falls of the upper Rio Puerco by continuing on downstream from
Lichen Falls… or hike one mile up the creek without a trail from Rio Puerco
Campground on forest road 103.
Vivian Falls takes a dancing leap off her
50’ precipice of pink granite. She’s as
pretty as any you will ever see… and the quarter–mile hike to her is without a
trail. Park your wheels where forest
road 93 crosses over Rito Redondo. Head upstream and admire. Unfortunately all of her water gets stolen
away all summer to irrigate a meadow for cattle grazing….. poor
Vivian… she deserves better treatment than this. Try to visit her in May as she is usually dry
in June.
You can see part of Resumidero
Falls from forest road 93 without getting out of your automobile… but do get
out… walk and scramble around. Life is
good here!!! This fall has three sections.
The upper part drops about 20 feet.
It pours thru a hole in the wall of solid granite half way down, as seen
in the photo above. This is quite
unique. I do not know of this happening
elsewhere. The middle portion, which is
hard to access, is a 15’ falls. The
lower part is pictured above. It is a
beautiful 30’ sparkling pour-over. The
total drop of all 3 parts of Resumidero Falls is
approximately 70 feet. You may also
access Resumidero Falls by walking upstream from down
near Vivian Falls.
Almost a mile downstream from Resumidero Falls is a very friendly granite box canyon with
easy egress and ingress from upstream. I
strongly suggest a hike into 25’ high Resumidero Box
Falls. Just below this point the sheer
drop of Echo Falls will stop you abruptly.
The west rim of the Rio Puerco Box Canyon between Resumidero
Box Falls and Lichen Falls is a breath-taking hike. See this circle of falls as a loop hike
beginning and ending at the same set of wheels.
The Redondo Box with its countless falls is
a green and wet wonderland. Even tho there is no trail it is an easy walk of about a mile
above Vivian Falls.
(see
also Puerco
Falls)
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