Most scenic waterfalls:

• Alamere Falls
• Berry Creek Falls
• Pacheco Falls
• waterfalls at Greyhound Rock County Park (about 5 good waterfalls visible on one beach for a brief period after heavy rain)
• waterfall on a Santa Cruz county coastal cliff, 106 feet (give or take 8 feet)
• Buck Gulch Waterfall (aka Arroyo de San Jose, First Fall)
• waterfall downstream from Bass Lake [wait for a low tide].
• Murietta Falls
• in Lucas Valley Open Space Preserve, 35 foot falls with 2 creeks meeting halfway down
• in Lucas Valley Open Space Preserve, 75 foot falls
• Near Pomponio Beach, a 30+ foot vertical drop onto the beach

Most scenic hikes to waterfalls:

• Murietta Falls
• Pacheco Falls
• Donner Creek Falls
• Diablo #8 and Wild Oat Falls from the Three Springs trailhead
• Alamere Falls
• Ribbon Falls
• Grizzly Gulch Falls

Best dry season waterfalls:

• Alamere Falls
• Berry Creek Falls
• Maple Falls

Waterfalls with swimming holes:

• Hole in the Rock
• Pacheco Falls
• Grizzly Gulch Falls
• The Inkwell
• Little Yosemite (Sunol) [not much of a pool right by the waterfall, but plenty of pools nearby]

Note that waterfall height estimates are rather crude unless there's a reference to a page in Waterfalls of California that has a good measurement, or unless I've added a "give or take" number after it (in which case I've made some sort of measurement with a laser range finder).

Last updated 2017-04-23.