Cascade
Falls
Cascade Creek earns it’s name….. it cascades wee, wee, wee
…all the way home. These two 15
footers are in it’s lower reaches.
beta facts:
name- Cascade Falls
height- unknown… but a topo map estimate is
100’ or more. This falls probably
will not be sheer.
elevation- 8,950’
GPS coordinates- ±35°44.753’N 105°27.853’W
flow- this is a spring fed creek. However the high-water of snowmelt is
much more flow.
season- best in early May, during snowmelt.
accommodations- forest service campground
is at the trailhead.
ownership- Santa Fe National Forest – Pecos
Wilderness
access- 4½-mile hike from El Porvenir
Campground… one of New Mexico’s best….!!!!!!
…if you have a way to access the El Cielo
Mountain / Harvey Ranch road, then you can almost drive to this falls.
nearest town- Las Vegas, NM is about 20
miles southeast of here.
fun fact- this is a beautiful, beautiful
place….!!!!!!!
essay bro:
DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS HIKE WITHOUT EXPERT
TOPO READING ABILITY. El Porvenir
Trail is a wonderful, easy trail.
However once you turn west up Cascade Creek you will be dealing with
steep bushwhacking. Allow a full
day for this trip. We didn’t… and
because of that we did not make it all the way up to the upper falls of Cascade
Creek… the highest Cascade Falls.
If you make it up there, please send a photo of that highest upper
falls. We believe it could be 100’
high or more.
We hiked this in mid-May of 2008 and
encountered no snow on the trail. There seems to always be a downed tree to
provide a “dry” crossing, near each one of the many “wet” creek crossings that
the trail makes. Our shoes and
pants stayed dry the whole time.
(see also Hermit Falls
and El
Porvenir Falls)
Enhanced
National Geographic 7.5’ topo map
Send questions and comments to doug.vivian@yahoo.com