Santa Barbara Falls
Santa Barbara Falls is a
tiered waterfall about 80 feet high. All
3 tiers can be seen in this photo above.
My friend Rooney at the 30
high lower tier of Santa Barbara Falls.
Santa Barbara Falls lower-most tier is a 30’ high beauty.
About 100 yards upstream from the 80
footer, is another waterfall - Middle Santa Barbara Falls – 2 tiers – 50’ high.
- enjoy photos of more Santa Barbara Falls at the bottom of this
page
beta facts:
name- Santa Barbara Falls
type of waterfall- tiered waterfall with 3
tiers
height- 80’
...the creek in this gorge
descends 600’ in one-third of a mile.
elevation- 10300’
GPS coordinates- ±35°59.719’N 105°36.432’W
flow- a fine cutthroat trout stream
season- summer and fall
accommodations- Pecos Wilderness
ownership- Carson National Forest
access- 2½ miles on trail
#24 followed by 3½ miles on trail #25, then 1¾ miles
following the stream on game trails
nearest town- Peñasco is
about 15 miles north-northwest of here
fun fact- ...a very special place…!!!!
essay bro
The Rio Santa Barbara is a special jewel in New Mexico’s Crown. The upper two forks of The West Fork Rio Santa Barbara are both fine trout streams equal in size. Santa Barbara Falls are found on the “EAST” branch of The West Fork Rio Santa Barbara. Please “right-click” “save-as” to print and use a copy of my map below. The Forest Service Maps show the trail #25 incorrectly and they do not show the beautiful Santa Barbara Falls...!!!
Enhanced USGS 7.5’ topo
map
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These photos show the waterfalls that are
just upstream from both the 80’ and the 50’ Santa Barbara Falls.
This 20’ falls is one of the small falls
shown on the map above... also shown here is my right tenny
shoe.
Another 20’ small falls within a torturous
sculpted gorge
I couldn’t quite get this entire 30’ high,
three-tiered (upper-most) Santa Barbara waterfall to fit in this photo.
Here’s
a nearby waterfall on a side stream.
Cubby Hole Canyon Falls is about 25’ high.
...if you hike up that canyon you will see
why we call it “Cubby Hole Canyon”.
You’ll find it on my topo above.
a side view of Cubby Hole Falls
...and another nearby waterfall on a side stream.
30’
high Falls is just over 100 yards northeast of Santa
Barbara Falls.
Below
is a side view of this same falls.
The Santa Barbara Falls area is extremely unique and
wonderful...!!!
...SOME MORE PHOTOs FOR YOU…
showing the splendid view of 12,841’ Chimayosos Mountain as you hike up West Fork Rio Santa
Barbara Trail.
can you see why we call this Green Lake on our
map above...?
and nearby San Leonardo Lakes have some of the largest
perpetual snow-fields in New Mexico – photo August 2016
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