Above is Upper Escondido Falls, which is not in Escondido, but in Malibu. This is how it looks when it has rained heavily.
Typically, this time of year is when the waterfalls are refilled. Sadly, this is the third year in a row of very little rain, so most waterfalls are probably bone dry at this point.
Interestingly, one of the heaviest rainfall years was just four years back, when waterfalls that don't even flow in the best of times sprang to life.
Here are some photos I've taken of various Los Angeles area waterfalls over the years. Hopefully February and March will give us a rainfall turnaround…
Lower Escondido Falls
Fox Canyon Falls. There is no trail to reach this; you have to bushwhack. I will never return there; once was enough. It's in the Angeles Forest.
Newton Canyon Falls in Malibu. This is a waterfall made of limestone, so like Escondido, it has more of a trickling appearance.
Fish Canyon Falls near Duarte in the San Gabriel Valley. Probably the best overall waterfall and best trail to a waterfall. If you went there now, though, it would be completely dry.
