Tokopah Falls, also known as Tokopah Valley Falls, is a cascading waterfall in

Sequoia National Park Sequoia National Park is an American national park in the southern Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California. The park was established on September 25, 1890, and today protects of forested mountainous terrain. Encompassing ...

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. The falls are formed as the Marble Fork of the

Kaweah River The Kaweah River is a river draining the southern Sierra Nevada in Tulare County, California in the United States. Fed primarily by high elevation snowmelt along the Great Western Divide, the Kaweah begins as four forks in Sequoia National Park, ...

slides down a huge granite headwall of the glacial Tokopah Valley. Although the falls flow powerfully during the snow melt of late spring and early summer, it is usually a trickle by autumn, occasionally drying up completely during poor snow years. The falls are accessible by a fairly flat roundtrip hike from Highway 198.

External links

Tokopah Falls
at the World Waterfall Database

at Redwood Hikes Waterfalls of California Sequoia National Park Landforms of Tulare County, California {{TulareCountyCA-geo-stub

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