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Hike · Fall Creek National Recreation trailhead

Fall Creek National Recreation

Distance
11.4 mi
Vertical
2,162 ft
Summit
1,598 ft
Difficulty
Very strenuous

Fall Creek is a 34-mile tributary of the Middle Fork Willamette River in Lane County, Oregon, rising in the western Cascade Range and flowing generally west through the Willamette National Forest before joining the Middle Fork upstream of Jasper, southeast of Springfield and…

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Clear pools and basalt islets on Fall Creek as it flows through the conifers and broadleaf trees of the Willamette National Forest west of the Cascade crest.
Jsayre64 · CC BY-SA 3.0
A shaded pool on Fall Creek under autumn maples, a quiet stretch of the 34-mile tributary that drains the Cascade foothills toward the Middle Fork Willamette.
Jsayre64 · CC BY-SA 3.0
A turquoise riffle on Fall Creek in early spring, with the bare hardwoods of the surrounding Willamette National Forest just beginning to leaf out.
Jsayre64 · CC BY-SA 3.0
A wide gravel-bedded reach of Fall Creek in Lane County, Oregon, where the creek opens up below its forested middle canyon.
Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives · Attribution

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