About this spot
Fremont River Waterfall sits inside Capitol Reef National Park along Highway 24, about 6.6 miles east of the visitor center at mile marker 86.5, with a paved pullout and interpretive signs (parking here is closed seasonally). The falls — man-made when the river was rerouted for highway construction in 1962 — drop into a wide pool with a natural sandstone slide. The pool can be entered carefully from the rocks, but park and news reports describe repeated serious injuries, including broken bones, from people jumping off the falls, and jumping is discouraged and effectively prohibited. Flow and depth vary heavily with season and rainfall; during high flow, swimming is strongly discouraged altogether. This is federal park land — no permit needed to visit, but jumping carries real legal and physical risk.