New
Mexico Waterfalls
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Each waterfall is listed
by its name and location letter-number below this map.
Click on the waterfalls below for photos, topo maps and text information
*Photo Gallery
of some nice New Mexico Waterfalls
A-6 in Colorado
by 8 miles Chama Falls
A-6 in Colorado by 3 miles Trujillo Meadows
Falls
A-6 in Colorado by 2 miles Wolf Creek Falls
A-6 in Colorado by 5 miles La Manga Falls
A-6 in Colorado by 5 miles South Elk Creek Falls
A-7 in Colorado by 1½ miles
Cascade Creek Falls
A-7 in
Colorado by 5 miles Sheep Creek Falls
A-7 in
Colorado by 5 miles Bear Creek Falls
B-9 Lost Creek Cascades
B-9 Horseshoe Creek Lower
Cascades
B-9 El Salto (Spanish - the
falls)
B-9 Riito Cascadas (Spanish –
“tiny” creek cascades)
B-9 Hanging Falls of Columbine
Creek
C-8 Suazo Falls (aka- the ice
caves)
L-8 Fall Creek Falls (aka- Three
Rivers Falls)
Doug’s favorite
New Mexico waterfalls
1.
B-9 Columbine Hanging Falls – 130’ – 5
tiers
2.
B-9 Star Falls – 400’
3.
A-6 Brazos Falls - 1800’ – 2 tiers
4.
C-8 Quemado Falls – 200’ – “favorite of many”
5.
D-8 Pecos Falls – 100’ – 2 tiers
6.
B-9 Horseshoe Creek Falls – 100’
7.
A-7 Toltec Falls – 40’
8.
B-9 Horseshoe Creek Cascades – 400’ –
many tiers and falls
9.
B-9 Lost Creek Cascades – 300’ – many
tiers and falls
10.
C-6 Lichen Falls – 50’
11.
C-6 Puerco Falls – 60’
12. C-6 Echo Falls – 50’
13. E-9 Falls Creek Falls – lower falls is
120’ in 5 tiers – upper is 200’ in 4 tiers
14. D-6 Battleship Falls – 50’
15. B-9 El Salto Falls – 30’ to 200’ nine
waterfalls in all
16. L-2 Mogollon Falls – 60’
17. A-6 Brazos Box Falls – 30’
18. C-6 Vivian Falls – 50’
19. L-8 Fall Creek Falls – 120’
20. D-7 Nambe Falls – 220’ – 4 tiers
22. L-3 Falls Canyon Falls – 200’
23. D-8 Noisy Brook Falls – 100’
24. B-9 Lower Lost Creek Falls – 35’
25. B-9 Blake Fork Falls – 50’
New Mexico’s highest waterfalls
Based
on cumulative total elevation loss including tiers and ledges that can be seen
from one viewpoint
This
list contains only the falls we know
1. A-6 Brazos Falls – 1800’ – 2 tiers
2. B-9 Star Falls – 400’
3.
B-9 Horseshoe Creek Cascades – 400’
4. A-6 Chavez Creek Falls – 300’
5. B-9 Lost Creek Cascades – 300’ –
multi-tiered
6. E-9 Brazel Falls – 300’ – 3 or 4 tiers
7. B-9 Horseshoe Creek Lower Cascade –
250’ – multi-tiered
8. D-7 Nambe Falls – 220’ – 4 tiers
9. C-8 Quemado Falls – 200’ – not very
sheer but beautiful –“favorite of many”
10. B-9 El Salto #5 – 200’
11. F-6 Chimney Falls – 200’
12. E-9 Falls Creek Falls (upper) – 200’ –
3 tiers
13. L-3 Falls Canyon Falls – 200’
14. B-9 Bear Creek Cascades – 200’ –
multi-tiered
15. O-10 Sitting Bull Falls – 200’ – multi-
tiered
16. B-9 El Salto #2 – 150’
17. B-9 Bull-of-the-woods Falls – 150’ – 5
tiers
18. B-9 Columbine Hanging Falls – 130’ – 5
tiers – “my
favorite”
19. B-9 Middle Fork Falls (Red River) –
120’
20. L-8 Fall Creek Falls – 120’
21. E-9 Falls Creek Falls “lower” – 120 – 5
tiers
22. D-8 Pecos Falls – 100’ – 2 tiers
23. B-9 Horseshoe Creek Falls – 100’ – 3
tiers
24. D-6 Sanchez Falls – 100’
25. B-9 El Salto #7 – 100’ – 5 tiers
26. D-8 Noisy Brook Falls – 100’ - alittle
broken… but all one bedrock
27. M-8 Wild Boy Falls – 100’ – data unsure
28. L-4 Falls Gulch Falls – 100’ – 2 tiers
New Mexico’s highest waterfalls
100 feet or higher
Based
on highest one single drop that appears to be sheer or close to sheer
This
list contains only the falls we know
1. A-6 Brazos Falls 1000’ upper tier –
broken some with ledges
2. A-6 Brazos Falls 800’ lower tier
3. B-9 Star Falls – 400’
4. A-6 Chavez Creek Falls – 300’ – a few
small ledges
5. C-8 Quemado Falls – 200’ – broken some
near it’s base
6. B-9 El Salto #5 – 200’
7. F-6 Chimney Falls – 200’
8.
L-3 Falls Canyon Falls – 200’ – ledges
near the top
9. B-9 El Salto #2 – 150’
10. B-9 Middle Fork Falls (Red River) –
120’ – ruff rock surface
11. L-8 Fall Creek Falls – 120’
12. D-7 Nambe Falls “lower tier” – 100’
13. E-9 Falls Creek (upper) Falls “middle
tier” – 100’
14. D-6 Sanchez Falls – 100’
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there are many more, in fact I will not live long enough to find them all…!!!
This
is one reason why “waterfalling” is such a grand hobby.
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