Lower Calf Creek Falls
Utah · height not recorded · Last verified 2026-05-15
Flow at Lower Calf Creek Falls is light today (1 cfs) — visit for the geology, not the volume.
Right now
Streamflow
1.23 cfs
ESCALANTE RIVER NEAR ESCALANTE, · 26m ago
Overnight
69°F
Mostly Clear
Tuesday
96°F
Mostly Sunny
Today's daylight
Sunrise 6:25 AM · Sunset 8:38 PM · 14h 13m
Snapshot built 9m ago. Sources: USGS · NWS SLC.
Lower Calf Creek Falls is a waterfall in Garfield County, Utah. Height has not been officially recorded. Access details and conditions have not yet been verified in person by Fallspots — the data on this page comes from OpenStreetMap and USGS GNIS.
Lower Calf Creek Falls sits in Garfield County, Utah. The base sits at roughly 5,822 feet of elevation. Drive time is about 9 minutes from Boulder. A trail — Lower Calf Creek Falls Trail — runs within 50 meters of the marked location. This is one of the more frequently visited falls in the state by our popularity model. Source records come from OpenStreetMap and USGS GNIS.
Calf Creek Falls refers to a pair of perennial waterfalls on the Calf Creek in the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument in central Garfield County, Utah, United States, that total 214 feet (65 m).
Is the water flowing right now?
Most waterfall sites don't tell you this. The waterfall itself is almost never gauged, but a USGS streamgage in the same watershed can tell you whether snowmelt has started, peaked, or run dry.
USGS gage 09337500 · 9.1 mi away
ESCALANTE RIVER NEAR ESCALANTE, UT
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30-day streamflow
Above 30-day average↻ Same date last year: 0.1 cfs · 15727% of last year — significantly wetter
Compare to nearby falls
If this one isn't the right fit, here's how it stacks up against the closest documented falls. Every column is filterable on the site — not buried in 13,000 reviews.
| Waterfall | Distance | Height | Trail | Dogs | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Calf Creek Falls (this page) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Upper Calf Creek Fall | 2 mi | — | — | — | — |
| Lower Waterfall | 33 mi | — | — | N | — |
| Middle Waterfall | 33 mi | — | — | N | — |
| Upper Waterfall | 33 mi | — | — | N | — |
| Fremont River Waterfall | 35 mi | — | — | N | — |
Questions visitors ask about Lower Calf Creek Falls
Answers built from our structured data. If a question isn't here, the fact is unverified — we'd rather omit than guess.
How far is Lower Calf Creek Falls from a major city?
Lower Calf Creek Falls is 6 miles from Boulder (about 9 minutes' drive).
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Where it is
37.8293, -111.4204
Sources and live status
Where we got the data, and where to check current conditions before you drive.
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calf_Creek_Falls
Wikidata (Q3916011)
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3916011
Last verified by Fallspots: 2026-05-15
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