Dry Falls
Rating: ****
Form: block
Magnitude: 10,000 years ago: 174 (h); today: 0
Access: auto (page 155)
USGS Map: Coulee City (1965)

Summer Falls
Rating: **
Form: punchbowl
Magnitude: 34 (l)
Access: auto (page 156)
USGS Map: Coulee City (1965)
Update: This entry is once again accessible to the public, as the Bureau of Reclamation has reopened the area previously administered by Washington State Parks.


Description: During the irrigation season of summer, water is diverted from Banks Lake through Trail Lake Coulee in part to generate hydroelectric power. Some of the flow is allowed to descend over a 70 to 100-foot natural escarpment into Billy Clapp Lake.

Directions: Drive 8.0 miles south of Coulee City along Pinto Ridge Road. Turn left (east) at the access road to the park. A picnic area and the waterfall are located in 1.0 mile at the route's end. Click here for a navigation map.

Others
During wet periods, look for Martin Falls, USGS Steamboat Rock SE (1968), issuing from a side canyon along S.R. 155 near Steamboat Rock State Park. Also known as Devils Punch Bowl Falls.

Reiser Falls, USGS Sullivan Lake (1968), and Delzer Falls, USGS Sullivan Lake (1968), are usually dry with the latter not accessible.  Wilson Creek Falls, USGS Almira (1969), is located on private property with no trespassing.  Crater Coulee Falls (u), USGS Babcock Ridge (1966 nl), appears on the topographic map to be accessible off of S.R. 28 if the land is not restricted.

Copyright 2011 by Gregory A. Plumb
GUIDEBOOK published by Mountaineers Books