Grand Falls

Grand Falls at a dry time. Grand Falls can be found northeast of Flagstaff Arizona. It is the result of a lava flow which dammed the Little Colorado River. The river canyon eventually filled with water and overflowed the rim and the water found its way around the lava flow, running roughly northward, then westward around the flow and then back to the south where it found the orignal canyon again at this spot, creating a water fall in the process. It has slowly eroded away the wall. You can see large chunks of the wall laying both on the shelf right of center and in the pool at the base of the falls at the left edge of the frame. When Grand Falls runs, it is usually a brown torrent.