About 0.4 miles from the trailhead, cross the narrow gorge on a suspension bridge and continue along the north bank of the creek. In the fall, you may notice yellowing larch trees among the evergreens: the larch is our only conifer that is deciduous. The trail proceeds above the narrow gorge carved by the creek. Soon you’ll be hiking along pretty Falls Creek, overhung with deciduous big-leaf maples and alders, as it drops among mossy boulders. The lower elevation forest here is composed of Douglas-fir, hemlock, and western red-cedar with a carpet of Oregon grape, salal, and red huckleberry. After 75 yards, you’ll come to a junction marked for a “horse camp”: this will be your return point to close the loop hike, but to get to the waterfall, keep right. While a trip on the Falls Creek Falls Trail #152A to view the lower two tiers of the waterfall is short and also very popular (see the Falls Creek Falls Hike), a longer hike to the rim above the falls gives you glimpses of the upper tier and takes you along the much less traveled Falls Creek Trail #152, which you can also use to make a quiet loop back to the parking area.Ī wide trail leads into the forest to the left of the restrooms. The falls are picturesque even during the summer and become an impressive, roaring, and misty cascade during the wet season. Falls Creek Falls, a triple plunge of 335 total feet, is one of the most scenic waterfall destinations in the Pacific Northwest.

Oregon waterfall hikes