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canyonwalker ([personal profile] canyonwalker) wrote2021-05-16 07:37 am

Highway Rest Stop - Sweet Creek Falls

Inland Empire Travelog #5
Remote Northeastern Washington - Fri, 14 May 2021. 4pm.

In my previous blog I described how one waterfall we visited was basically just an unmarked pullout on a remote country highway in eastern Washington. That's pretty shocking for a pair of drops totaling over 100'. Well, the next waterfall we visited today was given only slightly more honor.... Sweet Creek Falls is at basically a highway rest stop further east. Relative to Crystal Falls it's quite glorified. There are signs, and painted lines for parking spaces! But oh, how glorious it is.

A short, mostly level walk on a good trail leads to a view of the lower cascade.

Sweet Creek Falls, Washington [May 2021]

Doubling back to the parking lot and taking the other trail, a slightly harder walk with some ascent, leads to view of the upper cascade.

Sweet Creek Falls, Washington [May 2021]

Then, of course, there's the view of both cascades.

Sweet Creek Falls, Washington [May 2021]

This is the kind of highway rest stop we really enjoy!