World of Waterfalls Blog

Lower South Falls surprised us as it was every bit as attractive as its more famous upper counterpart. This one featured a classically rectangular shape as it dropped 93ft but its wide…

Upper North Falls is a pretty compact but rectangular-shaped 50ft waterfall. You can get here by parking at the northern car park and then walking over then under the footbridge…

Middle North Falls took us by surprise as we had expected more dinky waterfalls in the central region of Silver Falls State Park. Instead, this impressive 106ft waterfall…

Lower North Falls is probably the least scenic of all the waterfalls bearing the name “North Falls” in Silver Falls State Park. This one slides at a height of around 30ft with lots…

Winter Falls plunges audibly when it’s flowing beneath the Rim Trail portion of the Trail of Ten Falls. It has a dedicated car park for those (like us) who want to start hiking…

Twin Falls is yet another one of those unimaginatively-named waterfalls in Silver Falls State Park. This one is short (probably 20-25ft or less), but it’s split in the middle by a…

Drake Falls is a pretty diminutive 27ft falls requiring the use of an overlooking viewing deck protruding from the cliff to get a view of it. You can find this one about 0.2 miles…

When it flows, Double Falls is a surprisingly graceful waterfall that (true to its name) falls one top of another. The upper tier falls in profile to the observer on the…

Ponytail Falls is kind of like a “Mini Me” version of Horsetail Falls. That’s because this waterfall also features the strange hourglass shape and dual chute profile feature…

Triple Falls was definitely one of the more distinct waterfalls in the Columbia River Gorge area. While most of the falls in this waterfall-rich area could be all similar in appearance with…

The Middle Oneonta Falls was one of four waterfalls on the Oneonta Creek within the Oneonta Gorge. It got the name “middle” because there was another waterfall immediately downstream…

Despite its rather unimaginative name, South Falls was probably the one waterfall in Silver Falls State Park that seemed to us to have the most notoriety amongst the park’s ten main waterfalls…

North Falls is perhaps the second most popular waterfall in Silver Falls State Park primarily because of how relatively easy it is to access. This one exhibited a more or less…

Elowah Falls was another one of the distinct plunging waterfalls situated in John B. Yeon State Park more towards the eastern end of what we perceived to be the “waterfalls area” along the…

Wahclella Falls (also known as Tanner Creek Falls) is one of the relatively lesser known waterfalls in the Columbia River Gorge. To get to it, you have to do a roughly 2-mile…

Metlako Falls is the first main waterfall on Eagle Creek. Due to the steepness of the gorge, your view of the falls is rather distant from a lookout that hugs the nearly…

Punch Bowl Falls (sometimes spelled Punchbowl Falls) was perhaps the main attraction of the Eagle Creek Gorge. For such a modestly-sized waterfall at 30-35ft, it was a very popular waterfall…

Starvation Creek Falls probably doesn’t quite get the publicity that other essentially roadside attractions get in the Columbia River Gorge area. Perhaps it’s because most visitors…

White River Falls (also known as Tygh Valley Falls) is a gorgeous and powerful multi-tiered waterfall within the rainshadowed Tygh Valley southeast of Mt Hood. The falls provides…

Multnomah Falls is easily the Columbia River Gorge’s most famous waterfall and could very well be the state of Oregon’s prime natural attraction. While our visits here have constantly shown…