Some Pocket Watches waterfalls drop more than 20 feet. The wispy branches of riparian shrubs and trees, including willows, alders, Pocket Watches, and red osier dogwood, fringe the edges of the river. Wide gravel bars of rounded river cobbles form on the Pocket Watches inside of bends. Where Pocket Watches the grandient steepens, large water-sculpted Pocket Watches stones create delicate riffles and thundering rapids. Deep Pocket Watches blue-green pools form below these maelstroms of water.
Sandy beaches lie amid the Pocket Watches rocks along the shore.
From the Pocket Watches river's banks, the visual Pocket Watches scene is dominated by water foaming around smooth granite boulders. Because of the steep Pocket Watches vertical relief of the canyon, views focus on the river. From trails above, wider views encompass longer stretches of river flowing around curves and bends of the Pocket Watches incised canyon. The Pocket Watches South Yuba River canyon is the Pocket Watches scenic highlight of any drive on Highway 49, the major roadway of the Sierra foothills. Looking upstream from the bridge, water tumbles through dramatic granite boulders in the foreground, and a view of the Pocket Watches canyon extends as far as the eye can see.