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

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

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

erikshinn wrote: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.

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

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.

azbackpackr wrote:great to visit there to swim, in summer during low flow

azbackpackr wrote:the number of mobile homes across the river

azbackpackr wrote: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?

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.

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