Aug 07, 2016 — This hike through the Richland Creek Wilderness visits three beautiful waterfalls. Starting from the Richland Creek Campground, I located the trail, which crosses over Falling Water Creek before following Richland Creek to the confluence with Long Devils Fork. Along the way, there are a bunch of beautiful water-carved slickrock chutes and formations in the creekbed, and a catwalk made of natural sandstone. From the confluence, I first headed south to Richland Falls, which required a narrow trail walk on the edge of the creekbank.
The skies were getting darker as I got back to the confluence of Richland Creek and Long Devils Fork, but I headed north into the dry creek up to Twin Falls. This required some boulder-hopping since I stuck to the watercourse, but there's a social trail on the side to make things easier. I'm regularly impressed by the waterfalls of the southeast, but Twin Falls is really high up there. Water was flowing out of Long Devils Fork to the west, as well as Big Devils Fork to the north, forming a really pleasant grotto with two waterfalls. I continued up Big Devils Fork using a social trail on the right side of the rightmost waterfall and boulder-hopped up the creek to Hamilton Falls. This waterfall feels more remote and cozy back here, despite its relatively small size. The colors of the water was a really deep green and blue. The rain came and my camera broke on the way back, but I wasn't too upset. I really enjoyed the hike.
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