Narada Falls double-tiered cascade
— the river that lands itself twice.
Not only on a wall.
“Narada Falls drops about 188 feet on the Paradise River, just below Paradise, on the way up Mount Rainier from the Nisqually entrance. The falls land in two distinct tiers, with a small basalt bench between them where the water collects and falls again. A short paved path leads down from a pull-off on the Paradise Road to a viewing platform at the base of the upper tier, where mist drifts back across the trail most summer afternoons. The name was chosen in 1893 by a Theosophical Society chapter in Tacoma, after a sage in Hindu tradition.
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Narada Falls is a two-tier 188-foot cascade on the Paradise River, inside Mount Rainier National Park on the river's descent from the Paradise meadows. The viewpoint sits at about 4,572 feet of elevation along the Paradise Road, between Longmire and Paradise on the road's south arm. The Paradise River runs from the Paradise Glacier above, joins the Nisqually River below, and eventually empties into Puget Sound. A short paved trail of about a fifth of a mile drops from the parking pull-off to a viewing platform at the foot of the upper tier.
The cascade falls in two stages over an andesite ledge that the Paradise River cut into the south flank of the mountain. The upper tier drops about 168 feet onto a small basalt bench, where the water gathers before falling again over a lower step of about twenty feet. Summer melt from the Paradise Glacier feeds the river through August; by October the flow thins and the rock face shows the channel the water has worn. Mist from the upper tier often crosses the viewing platform, especially in the afternoon, and the trail is closed in winter to all but snowshoe traffic.
The falls are reached from the Paradise Road inside Mount Rainier National Park, about three miles below the Henry M. Jackson Memorial Visitor Center on the south side of the mountain. The parking pull-off at the trailhead holds roughly thirty cars and fills early on summer weekends; an overflow lot is signed off the highway. The paved path is about a fifth of a mile, and steep enough that the Park Service recommends caution in icy conditions, which can persist into June. The trail is closed to wheeled traffic in winter but stays open on snowshoes.