# McWay Falls

- **Country:** United States
- **Coordinates:** 36.157806, -121.672139
- **Type:** Plunge tidefall
- **Height:** 80 ft
- **Location:** Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, California, United States
- **Number Drops:** 1
- **Photo Caption:** McWay Falls

McWay Falls is an waterfall on the coast of Big Sur in central California that flows year-round from McWay Creek in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, about south of Carmel, into the Pacific Ocean. During high tide, it is a tidefall, a waterfall that empties directly into the ocean. The only other tidefall in California is Alamere Falls.

![Photo of McWay Falls](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/McWay_Falls_Big_Sur_September_2012_002.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McWay_Falls (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)