PNW Explorations: Abiqua Falls

Abiqua Falls

Directions To Trail Head

Tips based off these directions:

The moment the pavement ends on Crooked Finger road, start your trip odometer to make sure you turn on the road on the right that's exactly 1.4 miles. Its a larger gravel road with no sign (that I saw) for the CF300, however there were other road signs marking ATV trials and locations.
A four wheel drive car can make it all the way down, but in a regular car there is an opening you can park at and walk the 2 miles down. Its long and steep to walk back up though.
Continue straight and downhill until you see the signs on the left (from the link) The do not say this is the trail head, but this is in fact the hike you need to take.

Our Trip

The venture began by following the directions on this site, but we couldn't find the right road to go down (see first tip). One road looked like it would have been right, and there was a car parked there, so we decided to walk down it a bit. Realizing we were walking down the wrong road, we turned around we saw others following us thinking we knew the right direction. We all decided to team up to find the falls together. After hiking another half mile in the wrong direction we came to a dead end, then had to hike back to the car. We drove back to the beginning and marked out exactly where 1.4 miles ended and sure enough, we ended up at the right road.

My friends Jetta got down about a half mile on the bumpy gravel road. The couple we had met up with let us ride with them and we made it down another half mile farther until the road got a bit too rough. It was just 50 feet of rough road, after that patch we could have made it all the way.

The trail head is not marked, but has a sign saying the property is private but available for recreational use (picture in directions link). It was very steep and also very muddy. Recent hikers had put up ropes that were very helpful in getting down the hill.

At the bottom, the waters were teal and trees bright green and the basalt formations began to take shape. A little farther down and around the corner was one of the most amazing waterfalls I've ever seen! We just stared at it for 15 minutes and then took a bunch of pictures.

This wallet is from this awesome company Rareform (Instagram: @rareform). From recycled billboards they make a variety of products such as surfboard bags, back packs, wallets and more!