Lisa Falls (Easy, .26 mile round-trip!)

Description:  I drove past this Little Cottonwood Canyon trail for many years before a friend told me about it. It is a very short, very easy, shady hike to a refreshing waterfall, and a great way to cool off on a hot day. Even small children will love the short hike. No dogs, though, and No trailhead restrooms.    There is one geocache along the way.

Directions to Trailhead: From the intersection  of Wasatch Boulevard and Big Cottonwood Canyon road, (The 7-11 Store) head South up Little Cottonwood Canyon 6.7 miles to the small turn-off on your left. (There is also a turn-off on the right, if the other one is full, but you will have to cross the road on a curve, which is nice to avoid if possible.)   The turn-off is between mile markers 6 and 7, just around the bend from a large brown pole with a traffic camera mounted on it.  The gps coordinates of the trailhead parking are: N 40* 34.364' W 111* 43.596'.  There is not a trailhead sign, but there is only one trail, and it is to the right of a dry stream bed. (Don't worry, there will be water at the Falls!)  Just hike up the short trail, enjoy the cool spray of the water mist, or go ahead and dunk your head in the stream!  I had the place to myself at 7 A.M. but I'll bet it gets rather crowded on a hot summer day. There is plenty of space and there are plenty of rocks to have a nice picnic meal.  If you are a geocacher, be sure to find the Lisa Falls Micro Cache: http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC1CRNC_lisa-falls?guid=3af3e3ba-07f4-4745-921a-616942410f7a.  I also found a unique cache down the road a bit called Shaker-slc Cache: 
http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCZ684_shaker-slc?guid=6c0012a9-7d4a-414e-aa34-9109cf772cc2.  A good way to get to this cache without a lot of bushwhacking is to first go to a fairly large hut made out of sticks at coordinates: N 40* 34.350' W111* 43.765'.

The shady trail.

Almost there.

Lisa Falls

Flowers below the Falls.