A fun, short hike in Big Cottonwood Canyon near Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Wasatch Mountain Range.
This is a very popular hike, so expect many other hikers on the trail and at the Falls unless you get there early in the day. The scenery was beautiful and very green on the way up.
This is from the bottom of the falls looking back down toward the trail route.
This is the cut in the mountain from the water and the Fall itself...the view gets better when you scramble higher. 
The Donut.
Looking back down from the Falls.
The hike roundtrip is only 1 1/2 miles.
This is a very popular hike, so expect many other hikers on the trail and at the Falls unless you get there early in the day. The scenery was beautiful and very green on the way up.
This is from the bottom of the falls looking back down toward the trail route.
This is the cut in the mountain from the water and the Fall itself...the view gets better when you scramble higher. 
The Donut.
Looking back down from the Falls.
The hike roundtrip is only 1 1/2 miles.
Getting there: 9.3 miles up Big Cottonwood Canyon there's a road into Cardiff Fork off to the right that passes the Jordan Pines Campground The road will turn to gravel...go less than a mile to reach the trailhead (lower TH in the map below) and parking. 1/2 a mile in the trail forks--go left for the falls. John Veranth's book "Hiking the Wasatch" is a great resource for this hike. 
After our hike we headed up the canyon to Silver Fork Lodge http://www.silverforklodge.com/ for lunch on their back patio...the view from the patio was amazing (see pic below)! A great spot on a warm summer day and after a hike.
After our hike we headed up the canyon to Silver Fork Lodge http://www.silverforklodge.com/ for lunch on their back patio...the view from the patio was amazing (see pic below)! A great spot on a warm summer day and after a hike.
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