California’s most beautiful waterfall isn’t even open to the public
Mossbrae Falls is breathtaking, but inaccessible.
Less than half a mile from the city limits of Dunsmuir, Calif., a little railroad town in far Northern California, there is a waterfall so beautiful that people say it takes their breath away.
Mossbrae Falls, which is fed from glaciers on Mount Shasta’s majestic slopes, tumbles across mossy cliffs in great curtains of water, and then down into the Sacramento River.
A century ago, the waterfall was a glorious tourist attraction. Southern Pacific Railroad ran special trains to it, where people could get out and take in the view and drink from the springs.