Horsetail Falls, Yosemite National Park

Horsetail Fall, located in Yosemite Falls National Park in Golden State, is a seasonal body of water that flows within the winter and early spring. The fall occurs on the side of El Capitan. If Horsetail Fall is flowing in Gregorian calendar month and the weather are excellent, the setting sun illuminates the waterfall, making it glow orange and red. This natural phenomenon is usually stated because the "Firefall", a name that pays homage to the manmade Firefall that after transpire in Yosemite Falls.

This waterfall descends in 2 streams facet by facet, the eastern one being the larger however each quite little. The eastern one drops 1,540 feet (470 m), and the western one 1,570 feet (480 m), the highest fully mobile body of water in Yosemite Falls that runs at some purpose each year. The waters then gather and descend another 490 ft. (150 m) on steep slabs, so the total height of those waterfalls is 2,030 ft (620 m) to 2,070 ft (630 m). The image shown here is taken throughout a temporary time during the winter, near Gregorian calendar month twenty one at sunset, made renowned by Galen Rowell's photograph.

The fall is best seen and photographed from atiny low clearing near the parcel on the north road leading out of Yosemite depression east of El Capitan.