Fall Creek is a small river in the

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, in

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. It is a tributary of

Pescadero Creek Pescadero Creek is a major stream in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties in California, United States. At ,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 15, 2011 it is the longes ...

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09-20-07 The creek flows through a

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(''Sequoia sempervirens'') forest in its short course through a narrow canyon. It is a left-bank tributary of Pescadero Creek and is perennial, being fed by rain in the winter and by

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in the summer and fall. Near its mouth, the creek plunges over

Tip Toe Falls Tip Toe Falls (also known informally as Tiptoe Falls), is a tall waterfall (though commonly mismeasured from ) on Fall Creek in the Portola Redwoods State Park, California. There is also an upper falls, a few hundred feet upstream, which is mu ...

, a series of two waterfalls that has a total drop of 14 feet (4.2m).

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