[2] It is most dramatic during the summer snow-melt season from the Heaven Lake (Chinese: 天池; pinyin: Tiānchí) basin.

Flow over the waterfall is reduced in winter months but it never completely freezes over since the lake drains from depth below the ice and the water is geothermally heated beneath year-round.

Julong Hot Springs below the falls create pools full of colorful algae that thrive in the geothermal water upwelling.

The Songhua flows northward into the Amur, forming China's border with Russia, and eventually into the Sea of Okhotsk facing Sakhalin Island and the northern Pacific.

[3] Access to the waterfall is available year-round via a sheltered VIP path up the mountain (visible in photos to the right of the falls).