Archives: Waterfalls
Drake Falls
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…
Double Falls
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 (Upper Horsetail Falls)
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
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…
Middle Oneonta Falls
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…
South Falls
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
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
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 (Tanner Creek Falls)
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
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
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
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 (Tygh Valley Falls)
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
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…
Latourell Falls
Latourell Falls was a gorgeous waterfall that had the distinction of being the closest major waterfall of the Columbia River Gorge to the City of Portland. It possessed remarkable overhanging…
Horsetail Falls
Horsetail Falls was another one of the really easy waterfalls to visit within the Columbia River Gorge. Perhaps the hardest part about a visit to this waterfall would be finding a parking spot…
Wahkeena Falls
Wahkeena Falls sits just east of the Bridal Veil exit on the way to Multnomah Falls. Like many other waterfalls in this gorge area (let alone the state), there’s a bridge…
Bridal Veil Falls
Bridal Veil Falls offers a pretty quiet experience as this two-tiered waterfall requires a short but pleasant walk to see. It sits unconspicuously beneath the Historic Columbia…
Shepperd’s Dell Waterfall
The Shepperds Dell Waterfall would probably escape the attention of many visitors if not for the signposted bridge and attractively rugged gorge right below it…
Grand Falls
Grand Falls, when it’s on like it was when we were there, is one of the most attractive waterfalls in the US (let alone the American Southwest). What makes this proclaimed 181ft waterfall so…