About Van Trump Falls
Van Trump Falls is a waterfall that I’m giving special attention to because we nearly confused it with Comet Falls.
If not for our prior research before going on this hike, we very well could have ended the Comet Falls hike prematurely!
Anyways, the waterfall you see pictured above is the uppermost waterfall that we saw on Van Trump Creek along the Comet Falls trail.
It might also be informally known as Upper Van Trump Falls.
The author of our Pacific Northwest Waterfalls guide (Gregory Plumb) also gave names to the cascades we had noticed on Van Trump Creek further downstream from the falls pictured above.
We had noticed them during our Comet Falls hike but didn’t realize they were given names.
He called them Lower and Middle Van Trump Falls, but to be honest, there were so many cascades on that creek that it was hard to tell them apart.
Authorities
Van Trump Falls resides in Mt Rainier National Park near Puyallup in Pierce County, Washington. It is administered by the National Park Service. For information or inquiries about the area as well as current conditions, visit their website.
Since the waterfalls featured on this page can be seen on the Comet Falls Trail, see the Comet Falls page for more details.
As for geographical context, the Nisqually Entrance of Mt Rainier was 86 miles (supposedly under 2 hours drive) from Seattle and 50 miles (supposedly a little over an hour drive) from Puyallup. Of course with all the traffic restrictions and traffic lights, the reality was that it took at least 30-60 minutes more than what I’m quoting above.
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