Waterfalls are magical places for Scott and me. There is something about the sound of the rushing water leading to it crashing down below. In the spray, we find rainbows which always bring a smile to our faces. We decided in 2020 we would “collect” twenty water features that fit into the “waterfall” category. We took the year and found eleven waterfalls, one Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) dams, one Work Projects Administration (WPA) dam, six spillways, and one cascade. We did not have any criteria as to what to look for, we just tailored our travel plans to finding water features. It may not sound surprising or magical, but where we found the waterfalls blew us away.
We started to write about this project before and, honestly, got distracted by everything that was going on in our lives. You can read the first article (waterfalls 1-4) CLICK HERE.
To read about Natural Dam, waterfall #5, CLICK HERE.
Located in Osage County near Shidler, Oklahoma, Lake Charlotte Falls is something of a hidden gem. We lived near it for years and never know it was there. The waterfall is the spillway for the lake and only flows when the lake is full. We were fortunate to be there during a particularly wet winter when it was flowing well. Being the off-season we had the place to ourselves. It would have been much busier in the spring and summer.
This is another spillway that has been turned into a thing of beauty by downcutting. The layers of limestone have some of the best fossils we have found in the Osage area. There are many crinoids to be found here, but we actually found a fossil of a large “stalk” or “sea lily” (see the top right photo below, I have highlighted it in pink). Needless to say, I was extremely excited by this find.
When you visit this gem, be sure to take the stairs up to the top, there is more to see than is apparent from the bottom. Here you will see the upper falls and some rather interesting erosion the water has applied to the rock layers. The stairs, when we were there in 2020, were very secure; however, please use caution and do not do anything you feel unsafe doing.
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