2024—Palouse Falls—Washington’s Official Falls

We stopped at Jimmy John’s for sandwiches to fortify us on the almost 2 hour drive to Palouse Falls late in the afternoon on our first full day in The Palouse. Palouse Falls is a designated Washington State Park Heritage Site and the Falls is Washington’s Official Water Fall. It takes an effort to see the falls as the road to the falls is long, narrow, and winding and the cascade itself is not visible until you walk to the fence overlooking the canyon. The Palouse River runs through a narrow passage at the top of the canyon and creates the falls when it drops 200 feet into a churning pool below. From there, the river moves through a winding gorge and merges into the Snake River.  I alternated between long exposures to make the waterfall look silly and short, like this one, to show the power of the water cascading down.