Tumalo Falls
Waterfall · Bend, Oregon
A ninety-seven-foot waterfall on Tumalo Creek in the Deschutes National Forest twelve miles west of Bend, dropping in a single plunge into a forested canyon with a viewing platform a hundred yards from the car park. More falls run upstream along the creek and its tributary, and the trail continues past several of them. The surrounding forest burned in the Bridge Creek fire of 1979 and the regrowth is visible in the young lodgepole either side of the water.
Skyliners Road, Bend, Oregon, 97702, United States
FREE to visit, open dawn to dusk, but ⚠ THE ACCESS ROAD IS GATED BY SNOW FROM ROUGHLY LATE AUTUMN TO LATE SPRING and the gate sits several miles below the falls - in those months the only approach is on foot, snowshoe or ski. A NORTHWEST FOREST PASS OR INTERAGENCY PASS IS REQUIRED AT THE TRAILHEAD and is enforced; buy it in Bend. The car park is small and fills by mid-morning in summer. Entering the water is prohibited - Tumalo Creek is Bend's protected municipal watershed.