Look At The Yosemite Waterfalls!

Yosemite Falls is very well known. This California National Park has several waterfalls but this is the most famous of them all. This magnificent waterfall consists of three parts. The Upper Falls, The Lower Falls and a cascade of water in between. The upper part is 1430 feet tall. The lower part is 320 feet tall. The cascade in the middle is 675 feet. All combined the water falls 2425 feet, almost a half of a mile. This is the tallest waterfall in North America.

When you come into Yosemite National Park from one of the two south entrances, Bridalveil Falls will be the first waterfall that you will see. Standing 620 feet tall among lush green trees, it frames your view of Yosemite Valley. Your view will be postcard perfect as you view the Yosemite park from the Wawona Tunnel. Travelers who enter the Yosemite

Yosemite Nevada Falls is 1.5 miles above Vernal Falls. This waterfall is 594 feet tall. The water thunders down the sheer granite wall that makes up this waterfall. In the spring all the waterfalls in Yosemite run full force and thunder over the cliffs to the rocks below. By late fall most of the falls are a trickle of water. But this waterfall goes strong all year long. This fall is fed by the snowfields up in these high Sierra Mountains.

Yosemite Vernal Falls is one of the most beautiful waterfall in Yosemite California. You must hike to the bridge or drive to the top of Glacier Point to see this waterfall. It is not seen from the main valley floor. This waterfall is 317 feet tall. During the spring run off this fall is 80 feet wide! Take the free valley shuttle bus to Happy Isles.

Illilouette Fall is sometimes called the "hidden falls". It is not seen from the Yosemite Valley floor. You can view it from Glacier Point and while hiking on the Vernal Falls trail.

This waterfall is 370 feet tall. The best time to hike Illilouette Fall is in the spring and early summer months. The hike is 4.2 miles round trip.

Not all Yosemite waterfalls are seen by everyone who visits. This is one of those picture perfect destination for those that like to hike.

Alright, this is a thing of the past. But it is something that people still talk about and ask about today. It fits perfectly into our theme of Yosemite waterfalls. It was not a fall of water, but a fall of fire. And it was beautiful!

The Yosemite Firefall began in 1872 when James McCauley pushed the embers of a campfire over the edge of Glacier Point.

Horsetail Falls on El Capitan in Yosemite Natl Park is an ephemeral waterfall (meaning it is seasonal). It flows only during the peak of spring runoff. This is early February to early March. It is at its peak during the second and third week in the month of February each year.

This waterfall is near the north entrance off of Highway 41 and behind the Wawona Hotel. It is a strenuous hike that will take the better part of a day. This hike will take you 4.1 miles straight up with an elevation gain of 2,400 feet. This fall is a series of cascades coming down instead of a sheer drop waterfall.

These three waterfalls are up in Tuolumne Meadows. Tuolumne Meadows is above the Yosemite National Parks Valley Floor. These are three beautiful Yosemite waterfalls that are worth hiking too. This area is the beautiful high country of the Sierra National Mountains. To hike to these three waterfalls it is a moderate hike that will take the better part of a day.

Rainbows and moonbows are daily occurrences here in Yosemite National Park. Waterfalls give off mist and when the sunlight enters those water droplets, the sun rays are bent and split open the colors that form a rainbow. Moonbows are white rainbows that form when the light from the moon enter the misty water from the waterfalls.