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. In the Santa Rosa Range where the alpine forests are conspicuously absent, aspen is the major tree, sharing the slopes with a few limber pine. In the fall, the leaves turn a brilliant yellow with patches of orange and red, brightening entire mountain sides.