This pretty waterfall splashes about 23 feet into a small gorge just downstream from a rather dusty campground, it's located at an elevation of about 4750 feet. Upstream of the falls, Paulina Creek flows through pretty grassy meadows - more scenery well worth the attention of your camera.

Paulina Creek is undersized for the features found along the channel, it’s average annual discharge is 18 cubic feet per second. Between 2000 and 4000 years ago a small waterfall reached Paulina Lake and dropped the lake’s level by about 8 feet. This resulted in a flood with an estimated discharge rate of about 7000 cubic feet per second (almost 400 times the annual rate). The flood lasted no more than two days. This flood formed the many large scale features found along Paulina Creek. Here at McKay Crossing Falls during the flood there was a falls almost 100 feet wide.