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Burney Falls

As part of my touring, May 2022, in the Mt Lassen area, I looked in my favorite series The Creaky Knees Guide  and found this wonderful hike "Headwaters and Pacific Crest Trails."

Length: 1.2 miles, stairs and elevation gain.  No Dogs on trail. Toilets at the parking lot. Fee. Camping available.

Trail is a loop with lots of shade, but this area does get hot and dry in the summer, and can be icy midwinter.

There is also a wheelchair accessible overlook close to the parking.

The falls has a 129 feet drop, which may or may not be the highest in California. But it is one of the most beautiful.

It is also a little seen formation. Look at the photo above. Click on it to look up close. There was a small waterfall here until a volcano filled the little valley with lava. Erosion and the natural tilt of the bed brings water from Mt. Burney and created a new falls.  You can see it in the bowl of the part of the falls with the big flow.

But there are lots of other little seepage falls where the ground water trapped under the lava bed travels underground to the old waterfall. That is the little, softer appearing falls.

The developed trail goes alongside of the creek. There are plenty of benches to sit and enjoy.
  Good signage about natural stuff and historic stuff adds a lot to this walk.  
There are stairs but not too wicked.  One of the two bridges is a significant arc. Going up wasn't too bad, but the down hill on the other side triggered some of my walking difficulties. No problem, I just turned around and went down backwards.  My apologies for lack of good photos of this bridge, I am still learning this camera and its foibles. You will just have to go look at it yourself.
There is a campground here.  New, super clean facilities. There are cabins available, and coin op showers.  The creek feeds into a lake.  I suspect that the campgrounds is filled in the summer with the sort of folk that own motorboats and such. But in early May it is lovely.


The falls was just the first part of this particular journey.  The other part is learning how to use and edit in this new camera.  This video is no where near perfect. But it is a huge step in creating the stories I want to tell.



Note: The music is provided by my favorite fiddler, Rebecca Richman with Kyle Alden guitar.



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