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5 Upper Dinkey Creek Falls
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Location: Dinkey Creek, near Shaver Lake, Sierra National Forest,, Fresno County
Height: ~25 ft.
Access:  
Distance: 0.8 miles (RT)
Elevation: 8650 ft.
Season: May-Sep
Difficulty: 
Lat/Long:37.15427, -119.10456
Directions:From Hwy 168 just before Shaver Lake, turn right on Dinkey Creek Rd. Drive 9.0 miles to Rock Creek Rd. (Road 9S09). Turn left and drive 6.0 miles to Road 9S10. Turn right and drive 4.6 miles to Road 9S62. Turn right and drive 2.1 miles to the Dinkey Lakes trailhead. This road is very rough and requires a high clearance vehicle
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Upper Dinkey Creek Falls is a small 25 ft. waterfall along Dinkey Creek, located at the Dinkey Lakes trailhead, which is a long way from anywhere. It would not be worth driving all the way out here just to see this small waterfall, but there is other hiking and other waterfalls here.
We were here in early June 2007, and I was flabbergasted when we got out of the car at the trailhead, and was promptly met and attacked by approximately 1 million mosquitoes. I was so shocked because (1) we were at a very high elevation, 8600 ft., (2) it was very early in the season for there to be so many mosquitoes, and (3) we had not yet encountered hardly any mosquitoes on our vaction thus far. Brown mentioned in her California waterfalls book that there were a lot of mosquitoes here, but she was here in July. I figured that in early June, we would be completely fine. Wrong!
The hike to Upper Dinkey Creek Falls is very easy. You do not need to cross the creek. Just take the trail from the parking area on the west side of the creek, leading upstream. It is less than a half mile to the falls. But because of the mosquitoes, I just wanted to take the photo quickly and get back to the car as fast as I could. It is not a waterfall that I could enjoy for very long.
But do not go back home too quickly, however. There is a much larger waterfall on Dinkey Creek, just downstream from the parking area. Do not miss it. In fact, it is the primary waterfall on Dinkey Creek, which is why I called this one Upper Dinkey Creek Falls, even though all the guidebooks I have read call it "Dinkey Creek Falls", and do not even acknowledge the existence of the real "Dinkey Creek Falls".
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