JEM Tunnel Falls-Oregon
PRINT SELECTION: Barbara suggests PREMIUM GLOSSY paper, mat or no mat, and LIQUID LAMINATE for ALL Photos, unless customers prefer otherwise. DESCRIPTION: Tunnel Falls, Eagle Creek, along the Columbia Gorge near Cascade Locks, Oregon. These picturesque falls are perhaps as much as six miles up Eagle Creek, past Punch Bowl Falls, but the hike to them is moderate in climb, raising perhaps only 1200 feet in the six mile trip. This hike is one of the most popular and magnificent trails in the Columbia River Gorge, and for good reason. You will literally lose count as you pass dozens of spectacular waterfalls through the lush temperate rain forests and tall basalt cliffs. You'll traverse passageways blasted out of the bedrock with dynamite, footbridges over bubbling streams, talus slopes, and unique geologic formations along your journey -- and that's just in the first 2 miles! at around the 6 mile mark, you'll turn around bend and be awestruck by the object of your journey - the 175 foot Tunnel Falls. As the name implies, your path with pass through a tunnel behind the falls about midway up the span. Consider as you enter the tunnel, that work to build this was done in the 1910s and has been virtually unchanged since! The falls drop from the bluffs above to the creek bed below then downstream into the main Eagle Creek run. The years have carved out a striking amphitheater here. It is a breathtaking area, and easily the climax of your trip.
