The first waterfall we come to is Horsetail Falls and can easily be seen from the roadway. We pull into the parking lot which is across the road (old highway) from the falls. It is a beautiful 178 foot high cascade of water plunging down a cliff in the shape of a giant, white horsetail.  Most of it can be seen from the parking lot but getting up close, we can see the powerful and beautiful plunge of the water into the pool at the bottom.  A ‘short’ half-mile trail to the top of the falls supposedly takes you behind the falls and offers a view of a second waterfall: Ponytail Falls (also called Upper Horsetail Falls) but we opt out of that hike (it might be ‘short’ but straight UP! Remember– the falls is plunging down a cliff!) We enjoy the falls from the bottom pool.