Sheep Kill Gulch Falls is a waterfall on Sheep Kill Gulch in Garfield County, Colorado, in the Colorado Plateaus region, with a total height of about 280 feet. It lies about 9.8 miles northwest of Parachute and roughly 41.7 miles northeast of Grand Junction as the crow flies.
At 280 feet it stands in the tallest quarter of Colorado’s 162 waterfalls with a recorded height, ranking 22nd; the typical Colorado waterfall is about 65 feet. The water comes down as a plunge, where the water drops vertically and loses contact with the rock face.
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.
There are 40 recorded waterfalls in Garfield County. Red Gulch Falls, a 280-foot plunge waterfall, is under a mile away. Light Gulch Falls, a 400-foot horsetail waterfall, is about 2.1 miles away. Sheep Gulch Falls, a 500-foot plunge waterfall, is about 2.2 miles away.
Sheep Kill Gulch Falls is located at 39.5774° N, 108.1394° 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 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.