This hike is just outside of Colorado Springs in North Cheyenne Canyon Park, past the Starsmore Discovery Visitor Center and the Helen Hunt Falls. The trail head started at "the hub," the junction of hiking and mountain bike trails, and followed Gold Camp Road. Distance: about 4 miles round trip, elevation: 1,500 feet.
The trail started out by making a large horseshoe semi-circle and passed by an old collapsed mining tunnel.
From there the trail followed a stream all the way to the waterfall. Except that the waterfall looked more like water gliding down rocks.
A steep trail with eight long switchbacks leads up to the top of the waterfall, which I attempted to reach. Unfortunately, I did not find the primitive side trail that leads to the top of the falls but I got a nice workout tackling the switchbacks.
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