Unnamed Waterfall

This is one of a number of waterfalls along the unnamed branch of Coal Creek which originates in Devil Lake north of the Mountain Loop Highway near Big Four. The falls drop in two steps for a total of 56 feet. The upper tier consists of a series of cascades with a total fall of 24 feet which proved difficult to both see and photograph due to thick surrounding forest. The lower tier is a much cleaner horsetail style fall which splits into two distinct channels during periods of lower flow and falls for 32 feet to a small pool below. The stream producing this waterfall drains from an area approximately seven-tenths of a square mile in size. The stream is shown on maps as originating from Devils Lake, but as the lake is only about 4.3 acres in size, it isn't thought to be a significant contributor to the volume of the stream, and instead most of the flow is dictated by snow melt or precipitation in the basin. Because of this, once the winter snow pack has melted off the volume of the stream will be reduced considerably, potentially to just a trickle in the late summer months.