Bluestem Lake Falls
Osage County, Oklahoma
Your visit at a glance
- Waterfall height
- Not recorded
- Location
- Osage County, Oklahoma
- Access status
- Partial guide: parking and short path described by a travel article only; rules for the spillway area are not stated
- The walk
- About five minutes from the main parking area
- Ground & access
- Short, narrow rocky path. Slippery rock around the falls; overgrown in midsummer.
Bluestem Falls is a series of drops over shale and sandstone below the Bluestem Lake spillway, northwest of Pawhuska. TravelOK directions: take Kihekah Avenue north from the center of Pawhuska to County Road 4070, turn left and continue over three miles to a fork, then take the left fork toward the spillway. A travel article suggests navigating to the Bluestem Falls main parking area; from there a short path, narrow near the falls, leads down in about five minutes. A low-water crossing on the way can be impassable after rain. Flow depends on water going over the spillway; use caution when the spillway is running high.
Plan your visit
Bluestem Lake spillway northwest of Pawhuska, Bluestem Falls main parking area and short path down to the falls below the spillway
Unearth the Voyage gives about five minutes at a casual pace from the main parking area to the falls area.
Short, narrow rocky path. Slippery rock around the falls; overgrown in midsummer.
Where to start
Bluestem Falls main parking area near the spillway. The road crosses a low-water bridge.
Timing & water
Best after rain; the falls can be low in dry spells. Do not cross the low-water bridge when it is flooded.
Before you go
No fee is stated.
Visitor informationVisit sources
More waterfalls nearby
Within 40 straight-line miles. Road and trail distances will differ.
No other mapped waterfalls within 40 miles.