The actual trailhead is a hundred yards northeast inside the USDA Forest Service boundary fence. Minimal trail maintenance is done at the beginning of the season. Just after entering the canyon, you'll come to the waterfall that gives the canyon its name. It is small, but when the water is flowing wildly during the spring snowmelt or is frozen in hanging needles of ice in the winter, it can be a beautiful sight. The vertical walls of phyllite to the south at the canyon entrance are awe inspiring.
Granite features take over a short distance up the canyon.
A lone limber pine grows out of a fissure in a single granite boulder in the sagebrush basin. Robins love the choke cherries in the fall when the fruit is ripe. Choke cherries as well as elder berries can be picked and made into jelly, syrup, and wine. Occurring in fairly widespread stands in the Santa Rosa Range, the quaking aspen is North America's most widely distributed tree. It grows throughout the western mountains at elevations between the pine belt and the spruce-fir belt.