Wallace Falls main drop
— — the long white drop the forest keeps to itself.
Not only on a wall.
“The main drop on the Wallace River, a long white plunge through second-growth hemlock and Douglas-fir east of Gold Bar. The trail climbs the old railroad grade up from the valley, then a switchbacked path to the middle overlook where the river comes apart against the rock. The water runs heaviest in the cold months and the quietest hikers get the view to themselves. Mist holds in the gorge a long time after the rain. from the studio
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The place, in three passes.
Wallace Falls is a series of nine waterfalls on the Wallace River in the western Cascades, about thirty miles east of Everett and just outside Gold Bar, Washington. The main drop is the largest of the nine and falls roughly 265 feet into a narrow gorge. The trail to the middle overlook climbs a little over 1,300 feet of elevation over about 2.7 miles, following an old Great Northern Railway grade for the first stretch and a forest path the rest of the way. The 4,735-acre state park was established in 1977.
The Wallace River drains the south slope of Wallace Lake before tumbling through the gorge below the main overlook. Flow is heaviest from November through May, when the falls run loud and the spray fogs the lower platforms. Summer flow drops noticeably; the falls thin to a clean white ribbon against dark basalt. The river is a tributary of the Skykomish, which joins the Snoqualmie at Monroe to form the Snohomish. Coho and steelhead use the lower river. Above the falls the water belongs to no fish at all.
The park gate opens at 8 a.m. and closes at dusk; a Discover Pass is required for day-use parking. The middle overlook, with the postcard view of the main drop, is about 2.7 miles in one way; the upper falls add another half-mile of steeper climbing. Boots and a layer for the mist are sensible. Weekends fill the small lot by mid-morning between June and September, so a weekday or a winter visit gets the trail nearly empty. The park is twelve minutes off U.S. 2 by way of First Street in Gold Bar.