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Wallace Falls State Park
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Wallace Falls State Park

north of Gold Bar, Washington
visited 5 March 2022
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Here in the Pacific Northwest, we have been blessed by an abundance of rain this winter. When hiking through Wallace Falls State Park, you are constantly reminded of this by the constant sound of rushing water.

This is one of Washington’s most popular state parks. I’ve been by any number of times to see the sign on Highway 2 saying “parking lot full.”

When we hiked the park on a sunny Saturday afternoon, we were far from alone.

A wide gravel trail curving through a dense forest of tall, slender conifers, with two hikers walking away from the camera in the distance, one carrying a red backpack. Ferns and dry brush line the path under an overcast winter sky.
Fellow hikers enjoying an early part of the main trail.
A stepped dirt trail descends through a mossy old-growth forest of tall evergreens toward a wooden footbridge and boardwalk crossing a rushing river below, with ferns and moss-covered ground on either side.

We hiked the Woody Trail from the main park entrance as far as Middle Falls. This trail crosses over the North Fork of the Wallace River and then follows the main part of the Wallace River through its many waterfalls.

A wooden footbridge and stepped trail cross a fast-flowing rocky creek in a dense evergreen forest, with moss-covered conifers, ferns, and moss-draped boulders surrounding the rushing white water.
A fast-flowing whitewater creek rushes over and around moss-covered boulders in a forest, flanked by ferns and bare shrubs in a lush green ravine at Wallace Falls State Park.
A narrow dirt hiking trail curves through a lush, moss-covered forest, with large sword ferns spilling down an embankment on the left and moss-draped trees arching overhead.
A rushing whitewater river cascades over dark rocks and small ledges through a dense evergreen forest, with tall conifers and mossy vegetation lining both banks under an overcast sky.
Lower Falls
A dirt hiking trail winds uphill through a dense evergreen forest of tall conifers, with moss-covered ground, ferns, and old tree stumps lining the path. Rocks border the trail in the foreground under soft, overcast light.
Lower Falls

Middle Falls is the iconic view from this park and very well worth the hike.

A tall waterfall plunges down a rocky cliff into a forested gorge dense with evergreen conifers, its whitewater cascading through the rocks below. Bright green foliage frames the view under a hazy, overcast sky.
Middle Falls
by Lisa Rozmyn
A dirt hiking trail winds through a dense evergreen forest of tall, moss-covered conifers, with green ferns and mossy stumps lining the path and dappled afternoon sunlight filtering through the trees at Wallace Falls State Park.
A muddy, root-crossed dirt trail winds through a mossy old-growth forest of tall conifers, bordered by lush green ferns and salal, with soft daylight filtering through the tree canopy at Wallace Falls State Park.
Sunlight filters through tall, slender evergreen conifers on a forested hillside, backlighting the trees and moss-draped branches. Lush green sword ferns cover the mossy forest floor in the foreground.

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