Beautiful Waterfalls Around the World

Cathedral Falls

Cathedral Falls is one of West Virginia’s highest and most scenic waterfalls. It is a steep cascade that falls into a natural ampitheatre. The ampitheatre is surely the reason the falls was named ‘Cathedral’.This is a very easy waterfall to visit. It is located in a small roadside park along US 60 about 1 mile east of Gauley Bridge. The falls is visible from the road, and the parking area, but much better views can be had if you take a short walk.It was raining when I visited Cathedral Falls, and had been raining for a couple of days. In drier times the falls will have much less water.There are some lights mounted on the gorge wall opposite the falls, so I assume the falls are sometimes illuminated at night.

Mount Rainier National Park

Christine Falls is a waterfall on Van Trump Creek in Pierce County, Washington. The falls are 69 feet (21 m) feet high and are best known for having a bridge spanning the lower drop.One of the most beautifulplaces we have visited is Mount Rainier National Park – an abundance of natural beauty and a myriad of waterfalls.

Columbia River Gorge

Fed by underground springs from Larch Mountain, the flow over the falls varies, usually it’s highest during winter and spring.Multnomah Falls offers one of the best places in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area to study geology exposed by floods.  Five flows of Yakima basalt are visible in the falls’ cliff face.

Sawtooth Wilderness, Idaho

Despite logging more than 100 miles in the Sawtooth Wilderness, I only saw a handful waterfalls. I suspect there were more, even along the trails I was taking, but terrain and vegetation kept them audible but invisible. Water definitely falls great distances — thousands of feet from snowline to the Salmon River — but big waterfalls are rare.

Cumberland Falls, Kentucky

Located in the Daniel Boone National Forest in Southeastern Kentucky, Cumberland Falls State Park is on the Cumberland River, 18 miles southwest of Corbin, with the waterfall bordering Whitley and McCreary Counties. The outstanding natural feature of the park is Cumberland Falls, World famous for its moonbow. The 125 foot wide waterfall has a 68 foot drop that showers onto the boulders that lie in the rocky gorge below. The mist rising from the largest waterfall in Kentucky, creates a unique natural phenomenon that is not visible anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere on a predictable schedule during a time period around the Full Moon.

Havasu Falls, Grand Canyon, Arizona

Havasu is arguably the most famous and most visited of all the falls, and is considered one of the most photographed waterfalls in the world. The falls consist of one main chute that drops over a 120-foot (37 m) vertical cliff (due to the high mineral content of the water, the falls are ever-changing and sometimes break into two separate chutes of water) into a large pool.

Eagle Creek Falls, Cumberland Falls State Park, Kentucky

Eagle Falls is located in Cumberland Falls State Resort Park in McCreary County, Kentucky, United States. Water from Eagle Creek descends 44 feet (13 m) before landing on the rocks below on the Cumberland River shoreline. Eagle Falls can be accessed by hiking Trail 9 located on Kentucky Route 90 in the Cumberland Falls State Park. The trail to Eagle Falls is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) and has very beautiful scenery along the way including the best views of Cumberland Falls.

Ethereal Waters, Mount Rainier, Washington

Salmon Falls Creek and Snake River, Idaho

Salmon Falls Creek is a tributary of the Snake River, flowing from northern Nevada into Idaho in the United States. Formed in high mountains at the northern edge of the Great Basin, Salmon Falls Creek flows northwards 121 miles 195 km,draining an arid and mountainous basin of 2,103 square miles 5,450 km.

Creek Falls, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington

Creek Falls is one of a handful of impressive waterfalls along the Wind River Road north of Carson and the Columbia River Gorge in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest of Washington State. Getting to the unimaginatively-named falls involves a little bit of a moderate, mostly gradually uphill 3.4-mile return walk to its viewpoint.

Flowing out of the Mist, Olympic National Park, Washington

Langfield Falls  Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington

Langfield Falls is one of a pair of fairly easily accessible waterfalls near Tire Junction north of Trout Lake in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The falls veil out over a prominent ledge of conglomerated volcanic breccia, falling 59 feet into a small pool. The falls will range from just a few yards wide to almost 75 feet wide in full flow, greatly altering the character of the whole area. Oddly many sources cite this waterfall as dropping 110 feet when its plainly clear its only half that tall.

Iguazu National Park, Argentina

Iguazu Falls are waterfalls of the Iguazu River located on the border of the Brazilian State of Paraná and the Argentine Province of Misiones. The falls divide the river into the upper and lower Iguazu. The Iguazu River originates near the city of Curitiba. It flows through Brazil for most of its course. Below its confluence with the San Antonio River, the Iguazu River forms the boundary between Brazil and Argentina.

Golden Falls, Iceland

Golden Falls, are about a kilometer above the falls it turns sharply to the left and flows down into a wide curved three-step “staircase” and then abruptly plunges in two stages (11 m and 21 m) into a crevice 32 m (105 ft) deep. The crevice, about 20 m (60 ft) wide, and 2.5 km in length, is at right angles to the flow of the river. The average amount of water running over this waterfall is 140 m³/s in the summertime and 80 m³/s in the wintertime. The highest flood measured was 2000 m³/s.

Portland Japanese Garden  Waterfalls

The Portland Japanese Garden is a traditional Japanese garden occupying 5.5 acres (22,000 m²), located within Washington Park in the west hills of Portland, Oregon, USA.Waterfalls are sometimes the actual sources of water in Japanese gardens, while in other instances they are dry cascades (kare taki) in which stones simply suggest the fall of water. Both exist in various forms, ranging from a single cascade to one of multiple stages. It is partly in that context that the waterfall plays such an important role in Chinese and Japanese landscape painting, an art form that probably inspired the creation of many Japanese gardens.

Horsetail Falls, Yosemite National Park, California

Horsetail Fall, located in Yosemite National Park in California, is a seasonal waterfall that flows in the winter and early spring. The fall occurs on the east side of El Capitan.^[1] There are a few days every February where this fall is lit up by the setting sun and reflects a bright orange.This waterfall descends in two streams side by side, the eastern one being the larger, but both quite small. The eastern one drops 470 m (1,540 ft) and the western one 480 m (1,570 ft), the highest fully-airborne waterfall in Yosemite that runs at some point every year.

Letchworth State Park, New York

Lower Proxy Falls, Three Sisters Wilderness, Willamette National Forest, Oregon

Lower Proxy Falls, located about two-tenths of a mile away from Upper Proxy, is best viewed from the lookout nearby. Hikers can easily follow the signs to reach the viewpoint where a giant log has been placed to provide the best view of Lower Proxy. There is a smaller trail farther down giving a slightly better view, but it isn’t very secure and therefore isn’t recommended for inexperienced hikers. From the log, visitors can get a full view of Lower Proxy, also approximately 100 feet tall, and see again how the water seemingly goes nowhere.

Lush Waters, Costa Rican Forest

Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee

Niagara Falls

The Niagara Falls are the most powerful waterfalls in North America.These voluminous waterfalls are situated on the Niagara River, which drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario and forms the international border between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of New York. The falls are 17 miles (27 km) north-northwest of Buffalo, New York and 75 miles (121 km) south-southeast of Toronto, Ontario, between the twin cities of Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Niagara Falls, New York.