A Tale of Ten Falls

Silver Falls State Park campground might have been full, but after a night of excitement in Stayton we headed back to the park to check out its star attraction, the Trail of Ten Falls.  Fourteen kilometres, ten waterfalls, and three hours later we have more waterfall pictures than we know what to do with.  I'll spare you most of them, but of course you want to see all ten falls, right?

1. South Falls - 177 feet.

The star of the show, really.  The rock behind the falls has been carved out over the years, with a little assistance from the builders of the state park to create a trail so that visitors can have a 360 degree view.

2. Lower South Falls - 93 feet.

3. Lower North Falls - 30 feet.

4. Double Falls - 178 feet.

5. Drake Falls - 27 feet. 

7. Winter Falls - 134 feet.

Many of these signs along the trail.  No diving off cliffs?  No throwing boulders off cliffs?

7. Twin Falls - 31 feet.

8. North Falls - 136 feet.

9. Upper North Falls - 65 feet.

10. Winter Falls - 134 feet.

As exhausted by hiking to waterfalls as you are of looking at photos of them, we drove back to Salem through some stunning countryside.

And finished the day, as we occasionally do, with a beer - this one was from Boon's Treasury, one of Salem's two McMenamin's establishments.

And finally (desperate to avoid the "suite hotel" at which we were staying) we went to see a movie at a theatre that doubled as a full service restaurant - Chad advises that Deschutes' Black Butte Porter is a great pair to the new Batman movie.