Horseshoe
Creek Lower Cascades
There are many waterfalls
on Horseshoe Creek below Horseshoe Lake in the Wheeler Peak Wilderness
Area.
I separate them and
describe them as three waterfalls:
Horseshoe
Creek Cascades ...is the upper portion 400’ high
Horseshoe
Creek Falls ...is the middle portion 100’ high
and
Horseshoe Creek Lower
Cascades ...is the lower portion 250’ high
These are all wonderful
waterfalls and each section of falls here are quite worthy of their own special
recognition.
Horseshoe
Creek Lower Cascades are about 250’ high.
They are a hundred yards or so below the main Horseshoe Falls. There are many substantial individual falls
here that all cut thru a common layer of solid bedrock.
These
photos may or may-not be in order… there’s alotta falls here and I couldn’t
keep track… sorry…
Here’s
a 40’ high tier
Horseshoe
Creek Lower Cascade
…a
50’ high section
…a
35’ tier
…another
50’ tier
…a
40’ section …purdy nice, huh…???
Horseshoe
Creek Lower Cascades
pretty
good, pretty good…. Pretty neat, pretty neat…!!!
beta facts:
name- Lower Horseshoe Creek Cascades
height- 250’
elevation- 11,111’
GPS coordinates- ±36°34.214’N 105°23.792’W
flow- always strong
season- July to Oct… the early bird will fight snow drifts
but will see the best water-show
accommodations- Wheeler Peak Wilderness
ownership- Carson National Forest
access- 4½ miles on trail #56 then
downstream a hundred yards or so…
nearest town- Red River is about 10 miles
North of here
fun fact- people who never leave the trail,
never see these waterfalls
essay bro
These are very high and beautiful cascading
waterfalls.
How high… is hard to say.
It drops about 250’ of elevation with less
than a 45° angle while cutting thru one single mass of bedrock… which is what
the World Waterfall Database WWD standards calls “one waterfall”… in this case
a “tiered” waterfall: http://www.world-waterfalls.com/measurement.php
…so according to the WWD Lower Horseshoe Creek Falls is a waterfall about 250
feet high. Now I personally do not
feel that this is as wonderful as one 250’ high sheer free-falling waterfall…
but the WWD rates them as equal… I disagree but I also don’t want to measure
and name each individual tier of this falls… so… I’m referring to it as a
cascade.
Make yourself a copy of my map. Horseshoe Creek Falls and Horseshoe Creek Cascades are listed on a separate page of their own. Please enjoy all of the many waterfalls of the upper Red River. It’s some of New Mexico’s best…!!!
Enhanced
National Geographic 7.5’ topo map
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