Silver Strand Falls
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Height of falls:
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1170 feet | ||
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Watercourse:
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Meadow Brook | |||
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Elevation of crest:
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5466 feet | |||
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| Thousands of people stand directly below this waterfall and never notice it. Silver Strand Falls clings to the cliffs high above the Wawona Tunnel viewpoint, where everyone stands riveted by the view of Yosemite Valley straight ahead. Few direct their gaze back and up, far up, to where tiny Meadow Brook slides over the valley rim.
Though one of the highest, this is not a truly free-leaping falls, and dries up by mid-summer. Anywhere but Yosemite Valley it would be a famous sight, but here it is just one among many. |
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