National Creek Falls
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LocationDouglas County, Oregon
Elevation3,863 ft (1,177 m)
| National Creek Falls | |
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 National Creek Falls | |
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| Location | Douglas County, Oregon |
| Coordinates | 43°01′53″N 122°20′41″W / 43.03141°N 122.34466°W |
| Type | Cascade, Plunge |
| Elevation | 3,863 ft (1,177 m) |
| Total height | 40 ft (12 m) |
| Number of drops | 1 |
| Average width | 30 ft (9 m) |
| Average flow rate | 150 cu ft/s (4.2 m3/s) |
National Creek Falls is a waterfall from National Creek, that plunges into a grotto surrounded by a meadow of mosses on the west skirt of the Crater Lake National Park, north of Union Creek, Oregon.[1]
National Creek Falls lays adjacent to Diamond Lake Road off US Route 62. The road was once a wagon route used for travel from the Rogue Valley to the newly discovered gold mines in the John Day Valley. The drainage of National Creek was then a popular layover site for miners and stock-men travelers that passed at Lake West towards the John Day Valley. After a fire devastated the area in the early 1860s the route was reopened in 1910 by the Forest Service, now known as Diamond Lake Road.[2]
