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McWay Falls, California

Inside  Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park
McWay Falls, California
Photo: King of Hearts · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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McWay Falls is an 80-foot-tall (24 m) waterfall on the coast of Big Sur in central California that flows year-round from McWay Creek in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, about 37 miles (60 km) south of Carmel, into the Pacific Ocean. During high tide, it is a tidefall, a waterfall that empties directly into the ocean. The only other tidefall in California is Alamere Falls.

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Is McWay Falls in a national park?
McWay Falls is inside Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, a state park, not a national park.
What type of waterfall is McWay Falls?
McWay Falls is classified as a other waterfall.
Location: © OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS GNIS Description: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) Photo: King of Hearts · CC BY-SA 3.0 State park: Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park (via © OpenStreetMap contributors)
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