California
Horsetail Falls
51 mi from Reno · ~1.5 hr drive
No height recorded
Horsetail Falls is a named waterfall in California — about 51 miles from Reno, NV. Full visit details below.
- State
- California
- Nearest city
- Reno, NV · 51 mi · ~1.5 hr drive
- Coordinates
- 38.8299°, -120.1234°
From Wikipedia: Horsetail Falls is a waterfall in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, to the west of Lake Tahoe in the Desolation Wilderness of El Dorado County, California, United States. It falls in stages for 791 feet (241 m). It can be reached by hiking north out of the Twin Bridges trailhead on U.S. Route 50. There is a forest service parking area designated to the area. Excerpt from the Wikipedia article on Horsetail Falls (California), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Visiting Horsetail Falls
The exact location is at 38.8299°, -120.1234° — 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.
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Stay nearby
Driving in? The nearest documented metro is Reno, NV — 51 miles away (~1.5 hr drive).
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Sources
Location and tag data for Horsetail 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.