For an Easter weekend hike, we decided to go back to Silver Falls state park and do the classic Trail of Ten falls, an Oregon classic.
We've already done this hike twice, in both low-water late summer and late spring when the water level was absurdly high, so there isn't much to say here that I haven't mentioned already. The hike was very busy thanks to the holiday crowds and there weren't many moments of solitude. The hike is still great though, and relatively easy considering the distance.
For the first time we went counter-clockwise, getting the boring 2 mile rim trail portion out of the way early. This was probably a smart move on our part as the hike finished with a bang at South Falls. It also gave us a slightly tougher hike as climbing back on the south side brings slightly steeper hills. Not by much, but enough.
Middle North Falls clearly stands out as the best falls to me after 3 visits. South Falls and North falls are really impressive, but MNF is a lot more intimate and it is kind of a secret that it doesn't seem nearly as cool when the water flow isn't optimal.
We also saw some deer at the end of the hike, chilling in an open picnic area that no one was wandering into.
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| Frenchie Falls, basically a tiny trickle |
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| The mighty South Falls |
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| Lower South Falls |
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| Lower North Falls |
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| Double Falls, double the Rappoccios |
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| The difficult to see and lame Drake falls |
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| Middle North Falls |
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| Middle North |
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| behind Middle North selfie |
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| An unnamed falls |
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| North Falls |
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| Upper North |
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| Winter Falls |
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| Winter falls with a Keeley for scale |
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| The scale of North falls |
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| Middle North |
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| The stairs before Lower South falls, the hardest uphill of the hike |
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| Going behind Lower South |
9.64 Miles
1086 ft. elevation gain
