Colorado
Zapata Falls
93 mi from Colorado Springs · ~2.7 hr drive
No height recorded
Zapata Falls is a named waterfall in Colorado — about 93 miles from Colorado Springs, CO. Full visit details below.
- State
- Colorado
- Nearest city
- Colorado Springs, CO · 93 mi · ~2.7 hr drive
- Coordinates
- 37.6190°, -105.5532°
From Wikipedia: Zapata Falls is a waterfall located in the San Luis Valley near the base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains on Bureau of Land Management land adjacent to Rio Grande National Forest and south of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Alamosa County, Colorado. The waterfall has a drop of about 30 feet (9 m). Access to this waterfall entails a mildly steep 0.5-mile (800 m) hike. Viewing the falls requires fording the stream and climbing rocks. Excerpt from the Wikipedia article on Zapata Falls, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Visiting Zapata Falls
The exact location is at 37.6190°, -105.5532° — 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 Colorado Springs, CO — 93 miles away (~2.7 hr drive).
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Sources
Location and tag data for Zapata 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.