This is the large, semi-seasonal waterfall cascading down from the heights of Crown Point. It is probably one of the most prominent falls in the Gorge, yet there is very little written about it (that I've been able to locate, at least). It does not appear, at my last check, on the Waterfall Survey website.

Tom Kloster, Facebook Post: November 23, 2018

...a couple of weeks ago I slogged along the shoulder of (now) Mirror Lake in the Columbia River Gorge to try to reproduce a photo taken by Frank Haynes in the 1880s. It was one of the first landscape photos captured in the Gorge, and is variously titled "Echo Bay and Thor's Heights" or "Echo Bay and Palisade Falls".

Thor's Heights has been known as Crown Point for the past century, home of the famous Vista House since the 1920s (not visible from this angle). Palisade Falls is the small stream that cascades from a hanging valley on Crown Point. Echo Bay was an inlet of the Columbia River until it was cut off by the construction of the modern freeway in the 1950s, creating what is now Mirror Lake.

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Columbia River Images: Crown Point, Oregon

Includes ... Crown Point ... "Thor's Crown" ... "Thor's Heights" ... "Thor's Point" ... "Castle Sinclair" ... "Cape Eternity" ... Vista House ... "Crown Point Falls" ... Campsite of November 2, 1805 ... Views from Crown Point ... "Crown Point Chalet" ... "Gardner's Cafe" ... "Johnson's Confectionary" ... "Vista Cafe" ... Mirror Lake ...

http://columbiariverimages.com/Regions/Places/crown_point.html

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