Glen Ellis Falls Pinkham Notch
— — the drop the river takes without warning.
Not only on a wall.
“The Ellis River runs quiet through Pinkham Notch and then falls sixty-four feet into a granite punchbowl. A short footpath drops under Route 16 by a stone-arched tunnel and lands at a railed overlook directly across from the falls. In high water the pool below holds a fine drifting mist. In late autumn the hardwoods on the far bank turn before the spruce above them does. — from the studio
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Glen Ellis Falls is a sixty-four-foot waterfall on the Ellis River in Pinkham Notch, the long valley that separates Mount Washington from the Carter-Moriah Range in northern New Hampshire. The falls sit inside the White Mountain National Forest, about eight miles north of Jackson on Route 16. A short paved path drops from the wayside parking lot under the highway through a stone tunnel and reaches a railed overlook directly across from the main drop. The river continues south from here toward its confluence with the Saco at Glen.
The Ellis River drains the eastern slopes of Mount Washington and the Wildcat Range. By the time it reaches the falls it has gathered the Cutler River and the Crystal Cascade tributaries above the Pinkham Notch Visitor Center. The drop at Glen Ellis is single-stage and nearly vertical, carved into the granite of the Notch. Volume peaks during snowmelt in late April and May; by August the flow narrows and the punchbowl below the falls reads a clearer green.
The wayside parking lot is on the west side of Route 16, marked from both directions and shared with the Glen Boulder trailhead. The path to the overlook is about a tenth of a mile and includes a short flight of stone steps; it is not wheelchair accessible. A White Mountain National Forest recreation pass is required at the lot. The falls are reachable year-round, but the lower viewing platform can be icy from November through April and is sometimes closed in deep winter.