Upper and Lower Mesa Falls, ID

On our way to Idaho Falls, Idaho last Monday to stock up on supplies, we took a side trip on the Mesa Falls Byway. The following are photos we took at the falls. There is a nice path that leads right up to the Upper Falls. The Lower Falls can only be seen at a distance. With all the winter snow melt, all the rivers are very full this year.

Water droplets clinging to the edge of leaves on the trail to the Upper Mesa Falls.

Rocks on both sides of the falls were covered in various kinds of moss.

Rainbow in the mist at the Upper Falls.

Water thundering over the Upper Falls.

The volume of water coming over the falls was amazing.

Interesting columns of rock on the shore of the river.

The Lower Mesa Falls from the overlook.

A close-up of the Lower Falls.