Whisky Falls, California
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Whisky Falls (formerly, Whiskey Falls) is an unincorporated area of
Madera County Madera County (), officially the County of Madera, is a county at the geographic center of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 156,255. The county seat is Madera. Madera County comprises the Madera, CA Metr ...
, California. It is located south of
Shuteye Peak Shuteye Peak is a mountain located in the Sierra National Forest in Madera County, California on the highest point of Chiquito Ridge. It's home to the first permanent fire lookout built in the Sierra Nevada. Shuteye Peak is known for its panoram ...
, at an elevation of 5,912 feet (1802 m). In the early 1900s, author Stewart Edward White built a cabin on Peckinpah Mountain near the old mill near Whiskey Falls, and wrote about the experience in ''The Cabin''. In 2019, U.S. Attorney
McGregor W. Scott McGregor William "Greg" Scott (born 1962) is an American lawyer and partner at the King & Spalding law firm. He served as the United States attorney for the Eastern District of California from 2017 to 2021. He was sworn in as a court-appointed ...
took a tour of an illegal marijuana farm in Whiskey Falls, in the Sierra National Forest.


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Unincorporated communities in California Unincorporated communities in Madera County, California {{MaderaCountyCA-geo-stub