Hiking Havasu Falls

Day 1: Hike in and set up camp

Day 2 and 3: Two full days to rest, relax, enjoy, explore

Day 4: Hike out

The aqua-blue Havasupai Waterfalls that spill over deep-orange, travertine cliffs in a desert oasis of stunning beauty. The stark contrast between the arid desert landscape of the Havasu Canyon and the lush vegetation near the water

The five Havasupai Falls include: Navajo Falls, Fifty Foot Falls, Havasu Falls, Mooney Falls and Beaver Falls.

Permit reservations begin February 1st of each year, but don’t wait to make your reservation. Most permits are taken up within the first few hours of becoming available.

From Hualapai Hilltop, it’s 8 miles to the Supai village and 2 additional miles to camping and waterfalls.

The Campground is a “camp wherever you want” campground running for over a mile on both sides of Havasu Creek between Havasu Falls and Mooney Falls in the Grand Canyon.

Note: Be alert and yield to all horses and pack mules on the trail. At the campgrounds, small wild critters in the campground (mice, squirrels, raccoons, etc) will try to get to your food (and anything else with an odor), even if it means chewing through your pack or tent. All such items must be stored in rodent-proof containers.

APPROXIMATE TRAIL DISTANCES

• Hualapai Hilltop Parking Lot to Supai Lodge: 8 miles
• Supai Lodge to Havasupai Falls Campground: 2 miles
• Hualapai Hilltop Parking Lot to Havasupai Falls Campground: 10 miles
• Mooney Falls to Beaver Falls: 2 miles
  • *Distances are one way

https://www.thecanyon.com/havasupai-falls

Day 3 Hiking to Beaver Falls Highlights

Beaver Falls is the most remote of the Havasupai waterfalls. It is 3 miles below Mooney Falls, or 3.5 miles below the campground. So a roundtrip hike to Beaver Falls is 7 miles. The hike is gorgeous but rugged. Beaver Falls is a stunning, cascading waterfall, but getting to Beaver is more about the whole adventure of getting there and seeing the canyon as well as enjoying the falls.

ABOUT THE HAVASUPAI TRIBE

The Havasupai Tribe currently sits on 188,077 acres of land in the southwest part of the Grand Canyon. When the Grand Canyon was originally established in 1919, the Tribe was allotted 518 acres in a nearby side canyon, but have since returned back to their original homelands, which includes the beautiful blue-green waterfalls they share with us today. These lands are sacred to them and they draw their strength and spirituality from it.

The population for the Havasupai Tribe is 640 and tourism is their main industry. Packing animals for trips, accommodating guests and providing other services for the tribal enterprise is their main source of revenue. The nearest community to the Reservation is Peach Springs, 64 miles southwest from Hualapai Hilltop. The Havasupai Reservation consists of plateaus dissected by deep canyons, most notable geographic features include “The Great Thumb,” Long Mesa, and Tenderfoot Mesa, which converge on the Coconino Plateau at the south end of the reservation. Havasu (Cataract) Canyon, which is where the waterfalls are located, has a varied topography of the plateaus, gentle, rolling slopes, to escarpments of Kaibab Limestone.

https://www.havasupaireservations.com/

-photos from a wanderer