Nevada Fall

Nevada Fall in Yosemite National Park - Sometimes called Nevada Falls.

Nevada Fall Picture

Nevada Fall Video - Here is a video I created that shows Nevada Fall ( Nevada Falls ) and other places in Yosemite National Park with spectacular high water - click here to watch!

You can hike to Nevada Fall from the bottom starting at Happy Isles and hiking up the Mist Trail past Vernal Fall and then continue up the trail to Nevada Fall.   Another option for hiking is to do a one way hike along the panorama trail starting at Glacier Point and hiking down past Illilouette Fall, Nevada Fall, and Vernal Fall ( hiking all the way to Yosemite Valley ending at Happy Isles)

John Muir said the following about Nevada Fall in his book The Yosemite:

The Nevada Fall is 600 feet high and is usually ranked next to the Yosemite in general interest among the five main falls of the Valley. Coming through the Little Yosemite in tranquil reaches, the river is first broken into rapids on a moraine boulder-bar that crosses the lower end of the Valley. Thence it pursues its way to the head of the fall in a rough, solid rock channel, dashing on side angles, heaving in heavy surging masses against elbow knobs, and swirling and swashing in pot-holes without a moment's rest. Thus, already chafed and dashed to foam, overfolded and twisted, it plunges over the brink of the precipice as if glad to escape into the open air. But before it reaches the bottom it is pulverized yet finer by impinging upon a sloping portion of the cliff about half-way down, thus making it the whitest of all the falls of the Valley, and altogether one of the most wonderful in the world.

On the north side, close to its head, a slab of granite projects over the brink, forming a fine point for a view, over its throng of streamers and wild plunging, into its intensely white bosom, and through the broad drifts of spray, to the river far below, gathering its spent waters and rushing on again down the cañon in glad exultation into Emerald Pool, where at length it grows calm and gets rest for what still lies before it. All the features of the view correspond with the waters in grandeur and wildness. The glacier sculptured walls of the cañon on either hand, with the sublime mass of the Glacier Point Ridge in front, form a huge triangular pit-like basin, which, filled with the roaring of the falling river seems as if it might be the hopper of one of the mills of the gods in which the mountains were being ground.