Grand Falls

[erikshinn]

Has anyone been out there recently? Is it flowing? MGIA

[azbackpackr]

You are a month late. It peaked at over 1000 about a month ago, now is running about 48. My daughter went March 30, took some great photos.
Here's the page to watch.
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/az/nwis/uv?cb ... o=09402000

[erikshinn]

Damn. Thanks for the quick response. I'll keep an eye on it in case it gets some flash flooding or what not.

[azbackpackr]

Damn. Thanks for the quick response. I'll keep an eye on it in case it gets some flash flooding or what not.

I would watch for heavy monsoon activity over a long period of time in the White Mountains in August or thereabouts. And keep watching that link I sent. But we just don't have enough remaining snow pack up on Mount Baldy to give it another boost this spring. Sorry bout that.

[paulhubbard]

It's actually kinda cool to visit when the water's not flowing, before it gets way hot.., http://hikearizona.com/photoset.php?ID=19760

[azbackpackr]

I've heard it great to visit there to swim, in summer during low flow. All the neighborhood kids will be there.
Oh, yeah, in case you didn't know, and are expecting a "wilderness experience," the area is fairly well-populated with people and the usual mobile homes, hogans, corrals, pickup trucks, wandering horses and dogs, etc. It's kind of a rural suburb of Leupp. The thing that really surprised me are the number of mobile homes across the river. They have to drive across the river at a flat spot just above the falls. When the water is high I think there is another, longer way for them to get to a bridge. It's all dirt roads back in there, which get very muddy during snowmelt and rain. They have a sort of park set up by the falls, though.

[paulhubbard]

great to visit there to swim, in summer during low flow

the number of mobile homes across the river

They have a sort of park set up by the falls

Are we talking about the same Grand Falls?
A.) I wouldn't even think about swimming in that muddy/greenish water
B.) I've Never seen any mobile homes near the falls, and I've been going there since I was a kid. There's a church about a mile in, and another home about halfway to the falls, but that's all you'll see as far as I know...
C.) There is a small covered view point structure, but that hardly constitutes a park?

[azbackpackr]

There are several mobile homes on the way in, and some across the river. I've been told kids do swim at the base of the falls in summer. I have not been there in summer. The park I mentioned by the falls is rudimentary at best, with a couple of ramadas.

[JoelHazelton]

I would never think about swimming in that water! :yuck: