- Selkirk Mountains
- Not available
- Excellent

The trail is a wide single-track, leading lower towards Snow Creek, nicely shaded by a coniferous tree canopy. Shortly after the half-mile mark you’ll happen on a fork, with the left branch leading to the lower falls and the right to the upper. This is signed, and both trails are fairly wide, so don’t mistake them for game trails.

The left branch leads through a jumble of downed trees (but the path is cleared) to a cedar grove. A short side spur deposits you at a meditative spot with a bench overlooking Quiet Creek. Shortly afterwards you’ll hit on the lower falls, where a wooden stair and observation deck offer prime viewing angles.

Back up to the fork and take the right branch through glens of ferns and old-growth forest to the upper falls. This branch, too, includes a short side spur to a spot on Quiet Creek with a bench. At the upper falls you can step out onto a rocky ledge for a good view of the falls and peer downstream as the water tumbles into a gorge towards the lower falls.
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We visited Snow Falls on Mother’s Day. In anticipation of a large number of families on this sunny spring afternoon, the U.S. Forest Service cranked the dial up to the high flow position. Personally I enjoy the gentle summertime trickle of water cascading over the rocks more than during spring runoff. But you have to see the falls at this time of the year to appreciate the energy of water.
Thanks, NH.
It was quite a wet spring; all the creeks seem to carry lots of water. We were out in Odessa a couple of weeks ago, expecting mud flats and not much else. Instead, all the lakes and creeks were full of water! I bet Palouse Falls is very impressive right now.
Second that!
I well know how that goes! We live in a beautiful part of the world!
That would be an excellent hike for a morning or afternoon, and an excellent way to introduce folks to the outdoors who have nvere hiked much!
Very true. This and the Myrtle Creek Falls trail, which isn’t far away. Thanks for reading!
Keep up this excellent blog long enough and you will have a lot of people reading and enjoying it!
Well, there a lot more hikes to do around here…I have more than 100 on my to-do list right now and it seems that every time I venture out I find yet another…