By 10 a.m. on a recent Tuesday, the parking lot at McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park was already full, and the line of cars waiting to enter stretched well back from the entrance.
Down by the newly Instagram-famous waterfall, there was yet another line, this time of people, as everyone took turns getting what they came for: a photo of themselves in front of the shimmering 129-foot wall of cascading water.with her mother, said they made a point of stopping at Burney Falls—in the foothills of the Cascade range about an hour east of Redding—after seeing a post about the experience on TikTok. Nearby, Cheryl Martinez was taking photos with her family.
The entrance to McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park sits on a bend in that highway. When its parking lot fills up, as happens by late morning many days from spring through early fall, cars waiting to enter the park can sit idling on the highway, causing backups that slow traffic to a crawl. Some drivers give up on waiting for a spot and park illegally on the highway's narrow shoulder.
"Anticipate long delays to enter the park, full parking lots, and extreme frustration," parks officials wrote in a June post on the McArthur-Burney Falls Facebook page. And even if you get in, the post warned, don't expect smooth sailing. The upper parking lots could be full, and visitors could face"a 2-mile one-way uphill hike to see Burney Falls." And to top it all off, the post said, visitors might contend with"long lines at restrooms" and"congested, slow-moving narrow trails."
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