Curly Creek Falls (Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington, USA)

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Curly Creek Falls

Curly Creek Falls is supposed to be the famed waterfall that had the rare distinction of having natural bridges spanning its falling watercourse. Unfortunately when we were there in late August 2009, the falls was nowhere to be seen (i.e. dry) and the natural bridges were hard to make out due to the harsh mid-day lighting under sunny skies. We suspect the watercourse flowing through the natural bridges only flows in June and July, but it's quite possible that the pair of severe winter snowstorms in 2008 and 2009 might have also obstructed the watercourse with debris thereby choking off the falls. We're not totally sure though a local we met here said they were flowing last year.

A footpath leads from the car park towards a pair of wooden railed overlooks. The first one is of the natural bridge and possible stream. Continuing further along the trail to its end yields another wooden railed overlook with a view of a light-flowing waterfall in the distance under the shadow of foliage further across the gorge. A partial sign (only the word "falls" wasn't scratched out) at this railing might indicate that this is the real Curly Creek Falls (and not the natural bridge one), but in any case, this particular waterfall is really not much to brag about as you can see from the photos on this page.

Perhaps in some future time, we'll make another go at this waterfall and hopefully see it the way that have caused many others to admire and praise.

Directions: The Curly Creek Trailhead is located a couple of miles along the unpaved Curly Creek Road 5 miles east of Eagle Cliff (or just under 20 miles east of Cougar) along the Lewis River Road (Route 90). Once you're on the unpaved turnoff, the car park is beyond the bridge and a little bit further up the hill where a signpost indicates the car park for this attraction.

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The real falls?

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Bottom up sweep of the very-hard-to-see falls in low, late Summer flow. Note: this is not the same stream as the one with the natural bridges through them. That one is a couple minutes further up the trail at a lookout platform. That falls was dry when we were there.

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Northwest Waterfall Survey (Curly Creek Falls)
Curly Creek Falls appears to have been partially channeled into a sink between the bridge on FR 90 and the falls. It flows well during the spring and ...

It's still there, just seasonal (Curly Creek Falls) Not rated yet
I've seen it in November twice, and it definitely flows during the winter rainy season. Apparently there's a sinkhole (old lava tube) upstream that diverts ...

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