Crooked River National Grassland

There are two substantial waterfalls in The Cove Palisades State Park, this is the most easily accessed, but smaller of the two. The falls occur where a small unnamed drainage, mostly fed by irrigation runoff, plunges 160 feet off the lip of the Crooked River canyon towards Lake Billy Chinook below. The main road accessing the park passes near the top of the falls and again crosses below it, offering several vantages. The stream along which this waterfall occurs would naturally be an ephemeral watercourse but the extensive agricultural activity along its course has allowed it to essentially come to life when it would otherwise be dry. Expect the falls to be flowing at their best when irrigation activities are at their peak in the early to mid summer months.