California
Darwin Falls
106 mi from Bakersfield · ~3.1 hr drive
No height recorded
Darwin Falls is a named waterfall in California — about 106 miles from Bakersfield, CA. Full visit details below.
- State
- California
- Nearest city
- Bakersfield, CA · 106 mi · ~3.1 hr drive
- Coordinates
- 36.3208°, -117.5243°
From Wikipedia:
Darwin Falls is a waterfall located on the western edge of Death Valley National Park near the settlement of Panamint Springs, California. Although there exists a similarly named Darwin Falls Wilderness adjacent to the falls, the falls themselves are located in and administered by Death Valley National Park and the National Park Service. There are several falls, but they are mainly divided into the upper and lower, with a small grotto in between. At a combined 80 feet (24 m), it is the highest waterfall in the park. The canyon is walled by dramatic plutonic rock. Excerpt from the Wikipedia article on Darwin Falls, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Visiting Darwin Falls
The exact location is at 36.3208°, -117.5243° — open in Google Maps for driving directions from your location.
Before you go: check current conditions with the appropriate land manager — state parks department, U.S. Forest Service ranger district, or National Park Service unit. Trail access, parking, water levels, and seasonal closures all vary. Several waterfalls in our database are seasonal and may run dry between mid-summer and the next rainy season.
If you've visited Darwin Falls and have current notes (parking situation, dog policy, seasonality, kid-friendliness), tell us at /contact — we update pages as we learn more.
Sources
Location and tag data for Darwin Falls comes from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL license) ; the Wikipedia article linked above provides additional history. We do not modify the underlying data — this page presents what's already publicly recorded. To suggest corrections, see our methodology page or contact us.