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[[Image:TwisterFallsHikers.jpg|thumb|250px|Looking due North from the top of the falls at the sometimes precarious trail]] | [[Image:TwisterFallsHikers.jpg|thumb|250px|Looking due North from the top of the falls at the sometimes precarious trail]] | ||
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Revision as of 15:14, 10 January 2007
- Height: 200 feet
- Elevation: 1200 feet
- Stream: Eagle Creek
- Weather forecast: NWS/NOAA
- Maps: Oregon Hikers Maps Google Maps
- Latitude, Longitude: 45.58229, -121.85098
- Hikes passing this location
- Eagle Creek to Wahtum Lake Hike (TH | <— —> | LOG)
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Description
Twister Falls is an impressive two-tiered falls near Tunnel Falls in the Columbia River Gorge. It is the last major falls along the Eagle Creek trail. It is also the tallest by more than 50 feet! Most hikers will never see the full front-end view of the falls - as it would require a difficult and often dangerous creek traverse. The main trail only affords the passerby a view of the much shorter, but very distinctive upper tier.
Twister Falls suffers from an identity crisis. The geologic survey has never officially named the falls. Some book authors have named it "Eagle Creek Falls" (and the name has gotten some legs) but they've also been referred to as "Crossover Falls", "Crisscross Falls" and "Bowtie Falls" in various hardcopy and online resources -- certainly all in deference to the criss-cross nature of the upper cascade.
If you have ever hiked to Tunnel Falls you may be surprised to hear how close this is! It is certainly worth the extra 1/2 mile round trip - if not for the falls, but for the breathtaking gorge path leading up to it. Hikers refer to this narrow stretch of trail as the Vertigo Mile due to the dizzying 200 foot drop-off. For some, this is the most beautiful portion of the trek
Trip Reports
- Eagle Creek to Tunnel Falls 9/23 - 9/24
- Timberline Lodge to Cascade Locks 8/23/06 through 8/26/06
- Eagle Creek to Wahtum Lake, and Chinidere Mt 7/12 - 7/14
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Related Conversations / Q&A
- Trip Report - Eagle Creek - 12/18/2006 (Trail conditions after recent storm)
- Mt Hood to the Columbia River via Eagle Creek over July 4th
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Guidebooks that cover this destination
- A Waterfall Lovers Guide to the Pacific Northwest - 3rd Edition, by Gregory Plumb
- Hiking the Columbia River Gorge, 2nd Edition, by Russ Schneider
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Contributors
- jeffstatt (creator)