A short and sweet trip to get in before work, after work or a lunch break in between if you are in/near the area.
Trailhead: Red Town Trailhead has 2 privies (clean), paper maps of trails (atleast there were there today) and a picnic bench if anyone to start their adventures by taking a bite first. Taking a map if available is always recommended as the park is humongous and trails in huge numbers and can get confusing. Parking tends to fill up quickly as was the case today.
Trail: Straightforward, mostly wide, narrows as you go the last 0.5 miles descent to the falls. The trail was neither muddy nor icy today. The sun shone through the tall trees.
There are several trails one can take to get to the falls. A fellow hiker I met at the falls said she had come down the "Quarry trail" which in her experience made for a slightly more intense trip if that's what one is looking for. I only had the guidelines in WTA and concur with the ease rating on the prescribed route on the website.
The falls were just like every time I've visited them. Beautiful.
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