We arrived Thursday evening and found a good spot to camp overnight. The campground is wonderful: lush green everywhere, ground well maintained, the sound of the roaring falls nearby. It rained a little bit but nothing too serious, fortunately the night wasn’t too cold. We awoke bright and early Friday morning and set out on the trail. The trail was clear and well maintained, no obstacles, no bugs, no mud, lush green all around, it was great. The falls were breathtaking we hiked up to the middle falls. Sadly we were running short on time so we couldn’t make it to the upper falls but plan on returning soon to make it to the top. 

Easy overnight at Upper Falls. There's 1 really good camp site on the riverbank in sight of Upper Falls, and 1 other site too close to the trail.  This was a good base to explore further up river.  Day hikers disappeared by 5pm and we had this beautiful place to ourselves!   

This is an excellent hike. The waterfalls are really spectacular, especially in the spring with so much water in the river. I really enjoyed the peaceful hike through second and old growth forest, especially towards the upper stretches of the trail. All three water falls are unique and worth visiting, and there is a bonus fourth falls located above the upper falls. If you want a longer hike, I recommend continuing up the Lewis River Trail to the Quartz Creek Trailhead. From there, you can continue hiking along Quartz Creek through beautiful ancient forests. This is a great springtime hike.

This is a fantastic trail. The elevation gain is very moderate, the trail was in great condition and easy to walk on (mostly soft forest floor), and the river was absolutely beautiful. The water was crystal clear, exposing the endlessly varying shape over the river bed. Numerous creeks fed into it, some cascading down pretty waterfalls. Dappled light and moss everywhere really make this a magical hike. Oh yeah, and the waterfalls were very pretty too!

We encountered only a handful of other hikers, probably due to the fact that we hiked on a weekday, as well as the hike's great distance from I-5. It took us about 1.5 - 2 hours, but it was a beautiful drive and we didn't mind it.

The one thing to look out for is the last 12-15 miles of road, after the Eagle Cliff Store. There are lots of fallen trees that partially cover the road. Some obscure an entire lane. They're light in color, and if you weren't paying close attention, it would be easy to hit one, so give yourself extra time through here. There was also an unpaved section with potholes and a few places where lightly scraped the bottom of our car (a Toyota Camry). This was only a couple miles, and then it's back onto a nice paved road.

There were people on the trail. We called ahead to make sure we would be able to get there and they assured us the roads were open, we made it in a Chevy Cruze just fine.

We did the portion of the trail starting from the lower falls camp ground to the upper falls viewing area (about 6 mi total with the reroute for the washout). Trail is partly rerouted between lower and middle falls, some bikers went the washed out way and took as long as we did going the long way, they said it was probably good we went around (had a 4 month golden retriever with us) and said they wished they had gone around as well. We stopped at middle falls for lunch. Some snow on trail between middle and lower falls, nothing to bad. 

A few trees down meant lifting pup over them and some difficult sections. Was overall not to bad and was a wonderful rainy hike. It was chilly but we planed for it. Beauitiful fall hike with the snow melt the falls were really going.