Lower Westcliffe
Falls
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Lower Westcliffe Falls in autumn.
Photo courtesy of Joe Hollick. Click
to enlarge |
Lower Westcliffe Falls in Spring
Photo courtesy of Joe Hollick. Click
to enlarge
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Lower Westcliffe Falls in winter. Photo by Dan Court. Click
to enlarge. |
Lower Westcliffe Falls is 9 metres (30 feet)
high and has a crest width of 6 metres (20 feet). Located on
a tributary of the Chedoke Creek, it is a Complex Classic Cascade
with year-round flow. Lower Westcliffe Falls is very unique,
as it forms a Double Waterfall with Lower Cliffview Falls.
History
This waterfall has an alternate name of "Half of Double
Waterfall at Chedoke Golf Course". The second name derives
from the fact that there is a double waterfall located
at Chedoke Golf Course where two separate waterfalls are
situated side by side. The water from both of these waterfalls
merge together into one stream.
Lower Westcliffe Falls is featured separately on the Waterfalls
of Hamilton Spring poster and together with Lower Cliffview
Falls as "Double Waterfall at Chedoke Golf Course" on
the Waterfalls of Hamilton Autumn poster.
How to get there
To reach Lower Westcliffe Falls, drive to the Chedoke Golf
Course and park in the parking lot. Just beyond the west end
of the lot, behind a chain link fence, the Double Waterfall
is visible from the Chedoke Radial Trail. If you want to get
up close to it, you have to go eastward to the metal steps
leading up the escarpment. Walk beside the steps and go under
the first landing towards the waterfall. Make your way through
the brush until you reach the Double Waterfall. There is no
trail and it can be slippery and dangerous, so be careful.
Lower
Westcliffe Falls is the waterfall on the right
side. The waterfall on the
left side is Lower Cliffview Falls. Photo
by Joe Hollick.
Lower Westcliffe Falls Photo Gallery
Lower Westcliffe Falls in winter. Photo by Dan Court. Click to enlarge. |
Lower Westcliffe Falls. Photo by Janice Lamb. Click to enlarge. |
Lower Westcliffe Falls. Photo by Janice Lamb. Click to enlarge. |
Lower Westcliffe Falls. Photo by Janice Lamb. Click to enlarge. |
Lower Westcliffe Falls. Photo by Janice Lamb. Click to enlarge. |
Lower Westcliffe Falls as part of the Double Waterfall. Photo
by Janice Lamb. Click to enlarge. |
Lower Westcliffe Falls as part of the Double Waterfall. Photo by Janice Lamb.
Click to enlarge. |
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