Treasure Falls is a waterfall in the San Juan Mountains, northeast of Pagosa Springs in Colorado. Above the falls sits Treasure Mountain.

The falls are named after a local legend about “a treasure of gold” buried in the mountain the falls plunge from.

Legend has it that a party of Frenchmen entered the San Juan Mountains somewhere around the Wolf Creek Pass in 1750. They set about panning for gold and were super successful amassing a fortune. They were repeatedly attacked and cached-in their gold near Treasure Falls. Only a handful of the original party survived and returned to French territory.

Mike and I found ourselves restricted to viewing Treasure Falls from the car park as neither of us had imagined seeing so much snow in the area and the only safe way of completing the 300-feet hike to a foot bridge to view the falls, really needed snow boots! I was wearing trainers and Mike something equally useless!

Wolf Creek Pass is a mountain pass on the Continental Divide, in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. The views are spectacular!