Wrapping Up Summer Vacation: Cascade Falls ~ Sunday, December 29, 2019

I am determined to finish posing about our 2019 summer vacation during 2019!

On our trip back from Utah to Nevada we took a more northerly route through the Cedar Breaks region, and took a hike to Cascade Falls.

This is a nice, mostly-level (but occasionally slippery) trail that leads to a waterfall. There are great views along the way.

At the end of the trail, you are actually at the top of the waterfall, which comes shooting out of a cave in a cliff.

This looks something out of like human-made scenery from somewhere like Golden Gate Park or Thunder Mountain Railway, but it's real. The US Forest Service says "the water that flows over the falls is supplied by Navajo Lake through an underground lava tube or sink hole."

Along the trail are sugar pines--which earned their name because they really do smell sweet!