Silver Cascade Falls, Mountain waterfall in North Cheyenne Cañon Park, United States.
Silver Cascade Falls is a waterfall in North Cheyenne Cañon Park that drops water over granite rock faces. The water flows from Buffalo Canyon and passes through St. Mary's Falls before merging into North Cheyenne Creek below.
Silver Cascade Falls lies on St. Mary's Creek, which drains Buffalo Canyon and passes over St. Mary's Falls before reaching Silver Cascade and then North Cheyenne Creek below Helen Hunt Falls. The falls sit within North Cheyenne Cañon Park, the city park that made the creek and its waterfalls reachable by trail from North Cheyenne Canyon Road.
The falls are part of a trail network that draws Colorado Springs residents throughout the year for outdoor recreation. Visitors experience the waterfall as a destination within a larger landscape of canyon trails and natural features.
The trail starts at the Helen Hunt Falls trailhead on North Cheyenne Canyon Road and runs less than 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the falls, but it is steep in places. Footing is slippery when wet or frozen in winter. The granite face at the top of the falls is polished and steeper than it appears, so take care there.
About 50 feet below the crest, an upturn in the rock face forms a spout; when flow is high, water shoots more than 10 feet out from the granite. The stream comes from Buffalo Canyon, runs over St. Mary's Falls, then Silver Cascade Falls, and joins North Cheyenne Creek below Helen Hunt Falls.
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