Wauna Viewpoint, Oneonta Gorge, and Bridal Veil falls

Here is a 3 birds with one stone entry. All these hikes are short and not deserving of their own post yet. 

Oneonta Gorge
Oneonta Gorge is famous locally for being really neat. It is indeed really neat. It's also stupid popular and not worth it unless you hit it on a lonely weekday morning.

Oneonta Gorge is a slot canyon that is about 1/4th a mile long, with a hidden waterfall at the end, and you need a swimsuit to reach it. You park, stuff everything in plastic sealed bags high in your backpack, put on your watershoes and hit the action. You are effectively just wading up the creek through the gorge. The first obstacle is the logjam. You gotta climb over a massive pile of wet logs (unless you swim under them fearlessly). Then you wade into the good part of the canyon, go through a knee deep pool, then go through a waist-to-chest deep pool in ball shrivling cold water for 20 feet, then boom, you are at the hidden waterfall. Take pictures, go for a cold dip in the pool underneath it, then walk back.

It's a really, really cool place but it get so busy so fast that to really appreciate it you need to do it when everyone else is busy. Even then, you'll probably still have people there. The other downside is that the gorge is really only accessible for one or two months a year, July-early September, after things dry out. Otherwise the pools of water move too fast and go too deep to be safe. It's worth it though.

Wauna Viewpoint
Wauna Point is a cliff jut between Tanner and Eagle Creeks. The top itself is hikeable but tough, the easier option is Wauna Viewpoint. It's a smaller jut underneath the point on the power lines. You park at Eagle creek, walk across the bridge, climb gorge trail 400 to a junction, then go up some switchbacks to the spot. Sadly, when we did this hike, a landslide had blocked access to the final viewpoint and we only managed to get a view to the east. Hopefully the landslide gets fixed soon and the trail re-opens. We did get a good view of Table Mtn at least.

Table Mountain

Crazy dutch angle looking northwest

Panorama

Table

Bridal Veil Falls
Lastly, we have Bridal Veil. Bridal Veil is a nice little waterfall right off highway 30 slightly west of Angels rest. It takes 20 minutes to see everything. Park, go down a slight hill, over the creek, and bam, waterfall. Easy peasy.