Whisky Falls | |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | California#USA |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in California |
Pushpin Image: | California Locator Map with US.PNG |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | California |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Madera County |
Coordinates: | 37.2869°N -119.4392°W |
Elevation M: | 1802 |
Elevation Ft: | 5912 |
Whisky Falls (formerly, Whiskey Falls) is an unincorporated area of Madera County, California. It is located 4.5miles south of Shuteye Peak, at an elevation of 5,912 feet (1802 m).
In the early 1900s, author Stewart Edward White built a cabin on Peckinpah Mountain near the old mill near Whiskey Falls, and wrote about the experience in The Cabin.[1] In 2019, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott took a tour of an illegal marijuana farm in Whiskey Falls, in the Sierra National Forest.[2]