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Hike · Lewis River trailhead

Lewis River

Distance
12.5 mi
Vertical
1,946 ft
Summit
1,844 ft
Difficulty
Very strenuous

The Lewis River is a major tributary of the Columbia in southwestern Washington, running about 95 miles from its headwaters in the Cascade Range on the south flanks of Mount Adams down to the Columbia near Woodland. The drainage covers about 1,046 square miles and produces a…

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Lower Lewis River Falls drops into a wide green plunge pool framed by old-growth conifers in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
pfly · CC BY-SA 2.0
A broader-angle view of Lower Lewis River Falls, the broad curtain that the river slides over a basalt shelf on its way west from the Cascade crest.
Jeffhollett · CC BY-SA 4.0
A telephoto detail of Lower Lewis River Falls picking out the moss-and-fern shelf the curtain folds over.
Jeffhollett · CC BY-SA 4.0
Above the falls, the Lewis River runs clear and shallow between dense banks of Douglas-fir and western hemlock.
jhvanwa · CC0

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