Road Trip - Burney Falls, CA

Burney Falls

On the second day of our road trip to southern California, we paid a visit to the McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park. Established in 1922, McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park is the second oldest park in the California State Park system. The park is best known for the spectacular 129-foot tall Burney Falls.To the people known today as the Pit River Indians, Burney Falls, or 'uts' i mi' wa, is a sacred place. Some say that President Theodore Roosevelt called the falls "the eighth wonder of the world." The McArthur family believed so strongly that the falls should be protected that they purchased the land and water rights and then sold them to the state for preservation as a park.