Granite Falls

Granite Falls is a 50-foot block waterfall on Granite Creek in Teton County, Wyoming, in Bridger-Teton National Forest. The broad curtain sits just downstream of Granite Hot Springs, with a primitive thermal pool beside the creek at its foot.

The falls

Lidar data puts the drop at about 50 feet. The falls stretch 40 to 50 feet high and 125 to 150 feet wide, a wide block of water across the creek. On the opposite bank, a small hot-spring cascade spills toward Granite Creek.

Getting there

The falls are reached from Granite Creek Road. A federal order identifies the Granite Falls Day Use Area along Forest Road 30500, north of Granite Creek Campground. On a 2020 visit the dirt road was rough and potholed but passable in a two-wheel-drive car; from the nearest parking area, informal paths lead less than a quarter mile to the base. Maintenance crews graded and regraveled the first 7.5 miles of Granite Creek Road in July 2026. Fees for the falls themselves aren't documented.

When to go

In winter the Granite Hot Springs approach is traveled on skis, snowshoes, snowmobiles or dogsleds rather than by car.

On site

Narrow informal paths reach the base. To get to the natural thermal pool, visitors wade across Granite Creek, where it runs fast.

History and name

The primitive pool at Granite Falls, about half a mile downstream of the hot springs, was one of the filming locations for the 1992 film A River Runs Through It.

Nearby

Shoal Falls is about 5 miles away, West Dell Falls about 6.8 miles and Upper Falls, on the Gros Ventre River, about 10.3 miles. Granite Hot Springs, a developed pool the Civilian Conservation Corps improved in 1933, sits upstream.

Distances are straight-line.