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The 10 Best Waterfalls in Arizona

Arizona's waterfalls are pilgrimages: turquoise travertine behind the hardest permit in America, a sacred ribbon deep in the Grand Canyon, desert pools that flow only when the sky cooperates. Every entry reflects current permits and access — and two famous names sit out with documented closures: Grand Falls (closed by its Navajo host communities since 2023) and Cibecue Falls (closed by the White Mountain Apache Tribe until further notice). Their pages carry those stories.

Havasu: the blue-green legend at the end of ten canyon miles and the country's most coveted permit — $455 buys three nights in a dream.

Directions, season & rules for Havasu Falls →

Beaver: Havasu Creek's final terraces, three fords and a ladder past where most permits stop.

Directions, season & rules for Beaver Falls →

Navajo Falls: the 2008 flood's replacement pair — the quiet swimming most hikers walk past.

Directions, season & rules for Navajo Falls →

Ribbon Falls: the sacred travertine cone of the inner gorge — mind the North Kaibab's late-2026 construction closure and come via Phantom if needed.

Directions, season & rules for Upper Ribbon Falls →

Deer Creek: a hundred-foot jet firing from a sandstone wall to the Colorado's edge — raft in, or earn the Bill Hall backpack.

Directions, season & rules for Deer Creek Falls →

Seven Falls in Sabino Canyon: Tucson's granite staircase of pools, tram-assisted, best in snowmelt spring.

Directions, season & rules for Seven Falls →

Tanque Verde: beautiful slickrock pools with Arizona's deadliest flash-flood record — a winter-and-spring falls, never a monsoon one.

Directions, season & rules for Tanque Verde Falls →

Tonto Natural Bridge: a waterfall misting through the world's largest travertine bridge, ten minutes from parking.

Directions, season & rules for Tonto Natural Bridge Falls →

Workman Creek: a 200-foot drive-up ribbon in the Sierra Ancha — with a uranium-history footnote that bans camping below.

Directions, season & rules for Workman Creek Falls →

Sycamore Falls: basalt pour-offs near Williams that thunder after storms and host climbers the rest of the year — time it to the weather.

Directions, season & rules for Sycamore Falls →

Rankings reflect our research, not a verdict on your trip. Check access and conditions before you go.

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