Leon Turnbull Photography

The main reason I wanted to go down to Palisade again was because of this new waterfall (and two others). I just discovered these ones recently. You will not find them anywhere else. Not on All Trails. Not in any book. The kayakers have seen this one before. Only the madman has likely seen it on foot and I am the first to document it. I am calling it Heath Springs Falls. It drops directly into the NFAR. An absolutely fabulous waterfall, about 100 ft. high.

I had a vague idea that I could get all the way down to the river here, or at least close. Ha! Not even a remote chance of that happening. There is an enormous cliff here, towering at least one hundred feet above the river. A humongous drop off! Well, so much for that idea. Only the kayakers are going to get up close to this one. I could take a swan dive off the cliff into the river? Nope. Whatever, the good news is that there is a great unobstructed view point of the waterfall at the edge of the cliff, but the edges looked extremely unstable. I really did not want to get right up to the end of it. I absolutely did not trust the ground whatsoever. Nonetheless, I was able to find some good (safe-ish) vantage points of the waterfall. I was happy. The first day of my mission was a great success.