Oklahoma's claimed largest waterfall, 77 feet of spring-fed Honey Creek over a travertine lip into a swimming hole, in a park the city of Davis has run for a century.
Year round
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Spring fed
What drives it
Honey Creek
Live USGS
Data on this page
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City of Davis
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The season
What fills Turner Falls, and when
Honey Creek rises from Arbuckle Mountains karst springs, in the park's own words a spring fed creek that runs all the way through the park, and builds the travertine that shapes the falls. The USGS gauge below the falls is literally named for it, and its late-summer readings under 1 cfs show how modest the spring flow gets between rains; storm pulses multiply it dramatically.
What the agency itself says
Welcome! A City of Davis owned park with 1500 acres of Castles, Caves, Hiking and a Spring fed Creek that runs all the way through the park! Summer Season: May 1st-September 30th Winter Season: October 1st-April 30th
Turner Falls Park (City of Davis, Oklahoma)The exception that proves the driver rule: spring-fed Burney Falls, where the water arrives underground from aquifer storage and the falls barely notices the season. “Burney Falls (6489840799)” by Prayitno / Thank you for (9 millions +) views from Los Angeles, USA, CC BY 2.0
Source: USGS Water Services (National Water Information System). Instantaneous values and daily statistics services. U.S. Geological Survey data are works of the United States Government and are in the public domain. Gauge verified 2026-08-27.
Multnomah Falls in autumn: a Columbia Gorge falls that keeps respectable flow year round, and the standard against which most falls seasons get measured. “Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Multnomah Falls, fall color - 3” — Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region — Public domain
Getting there
Access, in the agency's words and ours
The park runs summer and winter seasons with posted entry hours and admission, per its site, and prohibits pets; the swimming season crowds are the famous version, the quiet blue winter pools the sleeper.
Spring water building travertine (Havasu Falls, Arizona). Turner Falls runs the Arbuckle Mountains version, swimming hole included. “Havasu falls Arizona” — Stolz Gary M, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — Public domain
Common questions
Turner Falls flow season FAQ
Honey Creek rises from Arbuckle Mountains karst springs, in the park's own words a spring fed creek that runs all the way through the park, and builds the travertine that shapes the falls. The USGS gauge below the falls is literally named for it, and its late-summer readings under 1 cfs show how modest the spring flow gets between rains; storm pulses multiply it dramatically.
This page reads the USGS gauge on Honey Creek (Honey Creek below Turner Falls near Davis OK, just downstream of the falls, and named for it) live in your browser, and shows the latest flow next to the median USGS publishes for today's date, so you can see where today sits in the year. The gauge reads the river, not the brink, so treat it as the trend rather than a turnstile.
The creek always runs, though late summer brings it down to a whisper over the lip; the falls' size claims and Natural Falls' identical 77 foot figure make Oklahoma's tallest falls title a photo finish.
Turner Falls Park (City of Davis, Oklahoma). The park runs summer and winter seasons with posted entry hours and admission, per its site, and prohibits pets; the swimming season crowds are the famous version, the quiet blue winter pools the sleeper. Trail status, closures and safety rules are theirs, and their page is linked on this one; nothing here overrides what they publish.
Yosemite Falls in May, running on snowmelt that will be gone by late summer. The National Park Service tells visitors the falls can be dry by August, which is why every falls page here starts from its watershed. “Tourists below Yosemite Falls (39832011431)” by Mike McBey, CC BY 2.0
Flow windows are typical-year climatology drawn from the driver and the agency language quoted above, not forecasts. Live readings and per-date percentiles are U.S. Geological Survey data, public domain; the above-or-below-typical line is our comparison and is labelled as such. Access, trail and safety information belongs to Turner Falls Park (City of Davis, Oklahoma). National picture: waterfall season across the US → Hero image: “Havasu falls Arizona” — Stolz Gary M, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — Public domain
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