A Waterfall Lover's Guide to the Pacific Northwest 4th ed.
Gifford Pinchot Country 
7 Eagle Cliff
Waterfall Entries (refer to hardcopy book for descriptions and directions; page numbers are provided below)

Curly Creek Falls
Rating: ****
Form: tiered
Magnitude: 66 (h)
Access: trail (page 128)
USGS Map: Burnt Peak (1998)
Update: This entry is now more easily accessed via a second trail. Drive an additional 0.3 miles along Road #9039 (1.0 miles instead of 0.7 miles from Lewis River Road), to the parking lot signed for the falls. Follow Curly Creek Falls Trail #31A for 0.1 mile to a viewpoint along the Lewis River. This shorter route reduces the round-trip hike by 0.4 miles.






Miller Creek Falls
Rating: **
Form: plunge
Magnitude: 52
Access: trail (page 129)
USGS Map: Burnt Peak (1998 nl)










Big Creek Falls
Rating: ****
Form: plunge
Magnitude: 76 (h)
Access: trail (page 129)
USGS Map: Burnt Peak (1998)










Hemlock Creek Falls
Rating: **
Form: plunge
Magnitude: 32 (l)
Access: trail (page 129)
USGS Map: Burnt Peak (1998 nl)

Cave Falls
Rating: *
Form: tiered
Magnitude: 52 (h)
Access: trail (page 130)
USGS Map: Burnt Peak (1998 nl)





Rush Creek Falls
Rating: ****
Form: fan
Magnitude: 89 (h)
Access: bushwhack (page 130)
USGS Map: Burnt Peak (1998 ns)
Description & Directions: Road closures have essentially made this waterfall inaccessible to day-trippers.








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Update: It looks like someone managed a difficult bushwhack to McClellan Falls (u), USGS Burnt Peak (1998 ns), based upon this posting on Google Earth via Panoramio.


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