Silver Falls North Falls walking behind
— the curtain you walk behind.
Not only on a wall.
“A 136-foot waterfall in Silver Falls State Park, in the Cascade foothills about twenty-five miles east of Salem. The trail passes under the falls — a long basalt overhang shelters a damp gallery where the water hangs as a single curtain in front of you. Four of the park's ten named falls let you walk behind them; North is the tallest of the four.
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The place, in three passes.
North Falls drops 136 feet over a basalt rim in Silver Falls State Park, the largest state park in Oregon at nearly nine thousand acres. The park sits in the western foothills of the Cascade Range, about twenty-five miles east of Salem. The falls are part of the Trail of Ten Falls, a 7.2-mile loop along the North and South Forks of Silver Creek through old-growth Douglas-fir. The park was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1984 for its concentration of waterfalls over a single basalt formation.
The Columbia River Basalt Group laid down the rim the falls drop over roughly fifteen million years ago. Softer layers underneath weathered out behind the resistant cap, leaving a long shallow alcove. The trail threads that alcove, with the falls sheeting in front of it. Spring runoff makes the curtain heavy and loud; late summer thins it to a translucent veil. The water joins the North Fork of Silver Creek and runs west through the canyon toward the Pudding River.
The shortest approach is from the North Falls trailhead on Highway 214, a quarter-mile descent on stairs and switchbacks to the amphitheatre behind the falls. The full Trail of Ten Falls loop is 7.2 miles with about eight hundred feet of elevation change. A day-use fee applies at park entrances; the gate opens at dawn and closes at legal sunset. Mist makes the rocks slick — the rail and the path stay wet through spring and into early summer.