Silver Falls
Crosby County, Texas
Your visit at a glance
- Waterfall height
- Not recorded
- Location
- Crosby County, Texas
- Access status
- Roadside rest area with a stairway to the falls; flows mainly after rain
- The walk
- Distance not stated
- Ground & access
- Stone stairway down the canyon slope, a grass lawn, then the streambed and rock ledges at the falls.
Silver Falls is where the White River drops over rock ledges into a pool in Blanco Canyon, below Silver Falls Park, a roadside rest area on US 82 about five miles east of Crosbyton. From the rest area, take the white stone stairway down the hill, walk across the long lawn with its stone picnic tables, and continue along the canyon wall to the rock ledges and pool of the falls. Return the same way. The riverbed is usually dry. Texas Highways reports that the falls now flow only when it rains, and Authentic Texas says heavy storm runoff can quickly turn the riverbed into a torrent.
Plan your visit
Silver Falls Park rest area on US 82 east of Crosbyton, down the stone stairway into Blanco Canyon, then along the canyon wall to the falls on the White River
Neither Authentic Texas nor Texas Highways gives a walking distance. Texas Highways describes taking the stairway down the hill, crossing the lawn and walking along the canyon wall to the rock ledges and pool of the falls.
Stone stairway down the canyon slope, a grass lawn, then the streambed and rock ledges at the falls.
Where to start
Silver Falls Park safety rest area on US 82 (2422 US-82, Crosbyton), about five miles east of Crosbyton.
Timing & water
The falls flow mainly after rain. Irrigation pumping has reduced the springs that once fed the river.
Before you go
No fee is mentioned.
Visitor informationVisit sources
- Authentic Texas: Crosbyton's Silver Falls Park Rest Area
- Authentic Texas: Crosbyton's Silver Falls Park Rest Area
- Texas Highways: Generations of family memories wash away in Silver Falls
- Texas Highways: Generations of family memories wash away in Silver Falls
- Texas Highways: Generations of family memories wash away in Silver Falls
- Historical Marker Database: Silver Falls Pavilion
More waterfalls nearby
Within 40 straight-line miles. Road and trail distances will differ.