Little Dolores Falls is a 15-foot waterfall on Little Dolores River in Mesa County, Colorado, in the Colorado Plateaus region. It lies about 15.1 miles southwest of Redlands and roughly 18.7 miles west of Grand Junction as the crow flies.
At 15 feet it is on the modest side for Colorado, where the typical waterfall with a recorded height stands around 65 feet; it ranks 151st of 162. By form it is a tiered waterfall, falling in several distinct steps one after another. It falls in 2 drops.
The Colorado Plateaus are a high desert of layered sandstone mesas, canyons and plateaus with pinyon-juniper woodland and sagebrush. Waterfalls here are often seasonal, spilling over sandstone ledges after storms or snowmelt.
Mesa County holds 6 recorded waterfalls, and several are close by. Funnel Falls, is about 14.9 miles away across the state line in Utah. Fall Creek Falls, a tiered waterfall, is about 15.2 miles away. Big Dominguez Creek Falls, a 30-foot horsetail waterfall, is about 28.2 miles away.
Little Dolores Falls is located at 38.9651° N, 108.8758° W. The listing is based on the World Waterfall Database, one of the sources compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey in its inventory of waterfalls and rapids of the conterminous United States. The creek name is confirmed against the federal Geographic Names Information System. The exact position has not yet been verified on aerial imagery, so treat the map pin as approximate. Details on trails, parking and access have not been documented for this waterfall yet.