Idaho
Mesa Falls
104 mi from Bozeman · ~3.0 hr drive
115ft tall
≈ 35 m
≈ 35 m
Mesa Falls is a named waterfall in Idaho — a substantial cascade dropping 115 feet, about 104 miles from Bozeman, MT. Full visit details below.
- State
- Idaho
- Nearest city
- Bozeman, MT · 104 mi · ~3.0 hr drive
- Height
- 115 ft (35 m)
- Coordinates
- 44.1877°, -111.3298°
From Wikipedia: The Mesa Falls Tuff is a tuff formation produced by the Mesa Falls eruption that formed the Henry's Fork Caldera that is located in Idaho west of Yellowstone National Park. It is the second most recent caldera forming eruption from the Yellowstone hotspot and ejected of 280 km3 (67 mi3) of material. This eruption, 1.3 million years BP, was preceded by the Huckleberry Ridge Tuff and succeeded by the Lava Creek Tuff, both of which were also formed by the Yellowstone hotspot. Excerpt from the Wikipedia article on Mesa Falls Tuff, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Visiting Mesa Falls
The exact location is at 44.1877°, -111.3298° — 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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Other waterfalls within 30 miles
Sources
Location and tag data for Mesa 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.