Johan Bjorkquist. April 2, Add photos of this trail Photos help others preview the trail. Upload photos about this trail to inspire others. Share your route with others Help other users find their next route. Upload your activity and inspire others. Join the list Use Navigator in the AllTrails app and join the 27 other outdoor explorers who have completed this trail. Tonia Storlie. Rooster Christopher. Anna Froehlich. Zaid Fadul. Judi Urekar. Ethan McCartan. After looking at a map, we decided to head west from Jungle Bay, past Grand Bay, through the capital of Roseau and off to Trafalgar Falls, nearly an hour and a half drive in total.
For a first-time visitor to Dominica, Trafalgar Falls is about as easy as it gets. From the parking lot, it's a minute walk to reach the twin falls of Trafalgar, dubbed the father and the mother. The mother is about 75 feet tall and the father stands feet tall, making a pretty captivating duo. Both falls pool into a stunning rocky enclave that visitors can explore by foot. Note about Trafalgar Falls: We both wore sandals, which turned out to be fine. In many ways it reminded us of a small surf town in Southern California: a narrow road, salt-blasted wooden buildings and palm trees lining the beach.
The vibe was perfect, the food was good and the service was exceptionally friendly. After a stop at the Macoucherie Rum Factory, we headed to the Emerald Pool, one of the other locales on my must-see list. When we headed off on our drive in the morning, I had my doubts that we would be able to fit all of these sites in during a single day, but we ended up timing our day out perfectly.
Your mileage may vary, depending on where your cruise ship docks. From Roseau, we drove down a main road toward Rosalie Bay, taking a small, well-marked turnoff for the Emerald Pool.
We were one of the last groups to gain entrance before they closed their doors for the night at slightly before 4 pm.
Tropical Storm Erika in August moved many of the landslide boulders away and so the Father Falls now partially resembles its former state. The waterfall is still quite lovely, however. It has a deep pool and there are warm water pools and springs nearby.
The Mother Falls are the more accessible of the two waterfalls, though it can still be a very tricky scramble over large and often slippery boulders. Taking its source from the Morne Trois Pitons River better known locally as the Breakfast River , which is crossed by hikers on the Boiling Lake Trail from Ti Tou Gorge, this thundering waterfall also has a great pool.
The Trafalgar Falls visitor centre has a large car park with souvenir stalls, toilet and changing facilities, snack bar and a display room with examples of flowers and birds that may be seen in the area. It is also the entrance to the waterfall trail and where a forestry officer will ask for site passes.
The Trafalgar Falls has a wooden viewing platform just ten minutes or so along an easy trail where you can get photographs of both falls. Th is area is a rainforest habitat and it is possible to see several species of fern, epiphyte and bromeliad.
Look out for large land crabs scrambling for cover as you pass. Certified guides can be hired at the visitor centre to escort you either along the trail to the viewing platform or all the way to the foot of the falls.
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