Sabbaday Falls Kancamagus
— — a three-step fall through a narrow flume.
Not only on a wall.
“A three-tier waterfall on Sabbaday Brook, a short walk off the Kancamagus Highway. The brook drops about forty-five feet through a narrow flume of dark granite, broadens into a small pool, and falls again. A wooden viewing platform sits at the head of the flume. Early settlers from the Waterville Valley side reached the falls on a Sunday, and the name stuck. from the studio
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Sabbaday Falls is a three-tier waterfall on Sabbaday Brook, in the White Mountain National Forest about fifteen miles east of the Lincoln entrance to the Kancamagus Highway. The brook drops about forty-five feet in total, through a narrow flume of dark granite cut by glacial meltwater. A short trail of about a third of a mile climbs gently from the parking area to a wooden viewing platform at the head of the flume. The site is one of three formal scenic stops along the Kancamagus, along with Rocky Gorge and Lower Falls. The name comes from settlers from Waterville Valley who reached the falls on a Sabbath.
Sabbaday Brook drains the northern slopes of Mount Tripyramid, gathering snowmelt and rainfall through about four square miles of high forest. At the falls the brook drops in three stages: a broad upper veil, a narrow flume through a slot of dark schist about three feet wide, and a wider lower fan into the pool below. The flume is the work of meltwater under high pressure during the retreat of the last glacier, about ten thousand years ago. The brook runs full from April through June and thins to a trickle in dry late summers.
The trail to the falls is about a third of a mile each way, gentle and well-graded, with a wooden viewing platform and railings at the head of the flume. The site is a day-use Forest Service area; a White Mountain National Forest recreation pass is required for parking from late May through mid-October. The Kancamagus is plowed and kept open year-round, and the trail is walkable in winter with traction devices; the falls partly ice over from January through March. Vault toilets sit at the parking area; there is no fee inside the lot itself.