Gray Falls
Trinity County, California
Your visit at a glance
- Waterfall height
- Not recorded
- Location
- Trinity County, California
- The walk
- Approximately 1 mile round trip
- Ground & access
- Moderate to steep with stairs and roughly 300 feet of elevation change. Poison oak occurs off-trail year-round.
Use the Gray Falls day-use picnic area and signed trail system to reach the Trinity River. This is river-access terrain, with steep sections and stairs.
Plan your visit
Grays Falls Trail 6E30 from Gray Falls Day Use Site
Forest Service gives about one mile for the trail system and about 0.4 mile to the river from either trailhead.
Moderate to steep with stairs and roughly 300 feet of elevation change. Poison oak occurs off-trail year-round.
Where to start
From Highway 299, follow the Gray Falls day-use sign between Hawkins Bar and Burnt Ranch, then take the right-hand gravel road to the picnic-area parking.
Timing & water
Check current access and conditions before travel; the reviewed source does not establish a reliable visiting season.
Before you go
Fees, permits and reservation requirements for this visit have not been confirmed; check with the land manager.
Visitor informationVisit sources
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