Desoto Falls, Alabama, United States

4EclipsianNight 5:00 PM Feb 26, 2023

The Art of the Stairs
These falls were so nice and pretty to look at. The rocky area is a little hard to navigate, but that can be expected. The stairway leading towards the falls has some nice colored glass affixed to each step, which adds a bit of eclectic art. There are some picnic tables about which were in use by families. There are also some hiking trails that you can get lost in for a short period of time. Overall, a pretty waterfall.

4HJR1960 5:00 PM Jun 1, 2020

Beautiful but an Endangered Site
Put this review in a time capsule and open it up in 20 years. What you are likely to find when you open the capsule is that the beautiful vistas and scenery are encroached upon to an extent where postcards will be your only glimpse of what this beautiful place looked like. Just as you enter the park on the right, someone has built a house within feet of the waterfall. Below the falls, houses hang out over the gorge and ruin the view. As I enter my sixth decade as a traveler and professional photographer, I can’t begin to tell you the cost of expansion that I’ve seen in these pristine areas. In North Georgia, the Mountain View’s are all but gone. And it doesn’t have to be that way. The state of Alabama should have bought the property around this beautiful and historic place and saved it for future generations. This is what Theodore Roosevelt worried about when he and others saved millions of acres of land in the western United States a generation ago. My hope is that someone will read this and do something to prove me wrong for future generations. This site might be gone, but who will save what’s left?