Salt Creek Falls The falls plunges around 286ft, which a sign by the car park claims is the state's 2nd tallest waterfall. While this claim is highly disputable (though it might have some weight if you're just counting vertical drop waterfalls), the falls reminded us of some of the other plunge waterfalls found in the Columbia River Gorge. The reason why is because Salt Creek flows over an old basalt lava flow that filled in a valley originally carved by glaciers. Over time, glaciation calved off the edge of the lava flow resulting in the vertical wall over which Salt Creek flows (and plunges). There's also a trail leading to the Diamond Creek Falls and the Falls Creek Falls further upstream from the Salt Creek Falls car park. Unfortunately for us, the bridge crossing Salt Creek was snow-damaged from particularly strong Winter snowstorms in both 2008 and 2009 (we can vouch for the Winter storms because we experienced some of the action earlier this year in Spring!) thereby closing the trail. And from the looks of that bridge, it probably wouldn't be wise to hop the barricade and tempt fate as it certainly looked rickety as well as tilting to one side as the support beams seemed detached from several of the planks lined above it. [Back to top]  Top down view of the falls Cliffhugging viewpoints Julie at the lower viewpoint Diamond Creek Trail closed[Back to top] Bottom up sweep from one of the cliff-hanging overlooks Top down sweep of the falls and then the sweep continues downstream and ends at neighboring mountain range Bottom up sweep of the falls from the bottom viewpoint View Larger Map TRIP REPORTSFor more information about our experiences with this waterfall, check out the following travel stories.GUIDEBOOKS / OTHER RESOURCESNEARBY WATERFALLSHave You Been To This Waterfall?
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