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Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park is a state park in California, 12 miles south of Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park on California's Pacific coast. [1] A main feature of the park is McWay Falls, which drops over a cliff of 80 feet (24 m) into the Pacific Ocean. The park is also home to 300-foot (90 m) redwoods which are over 2,500 years old. [2]
McWay Falls is an 80-foot-tall (24 m) waterfall on the coast of Big Sur in central California that flows year-round from McWay Creek in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, about 37 miles (60 km) south of Carmel, into the Pacific Ocean. During high tide, it is a tidefall, a waterfall that empties directly
A smaller waterfall, the two-tier, 30-foot (9.1 m) McWay Creek Falls is located upstream of the Highway 1 culvert and the parking area. [7] A small 30-foot (9.1 m) cascade, Canyon Trail Falls, is fed by the South Fork just before it meets McWay Creek. [8] As most of the creek is steep and rocky, there are many unnamed waterfalls that also exist.
The Waterfall Trail along Falls Creek in Jones Gap State Park is a 2-mile round-trip hike that brings hikers face to face with three waterfalls. Each is a cascade with heights ranging from about ...
Fallen trees and other damage must be cleaned up before trails can reopen at the scenic Big Sur park. Skip to main content. News. 24/7 help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
Anderson Canyon in the Big Sur region of California was named after pioneering homesteaders James and Peter Andersen who were the first European settlers of the area. [2] The canyon, Anderson Creek, and Anderson Peak (4,099 feet (1,249 m)) are south of McWay Falls and within the boundaries of Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park.
Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park is known for its redwood groves [24] and trail to Pfeiffer Falls. Mud slides caused by the Basin Complex fire necessitated rerouting the Pfeiffer Falls Trail, re-opened 13 years later in 2021.
The closure allowed for the U.S. Forest Service to install 580 hand-built stairs and 2.3 miles of new trail in an effort to improve safety measures at what was once a particularly dangerous area ...