Lewis River Falls — Saturday, Apr. 13, 2013

Southwest Washington > Lewis River Region

We started the hike just after the first Lewis River Bridge. The weather was pretty cold and it snowed on us for most of the hike. We hiked from the Lewis River Bridge to the Quartz Creek Trailhead, about 4 1/2 miles one way. There was a significant amount of snow on the trail between upper falls and the Quartz Creek Bridge/Trailhead (about 1/4 of a mile) up to 10 inches deep in spots. The trail between the upper, middle and lower falls was pretty clear and not too muddy. There were perhaps 5 downed trees across the trail, all fairly easy to get around. There was a large volume of water going over the falls right now, it's pretty impressive. We didn't see any other people on the trail all day.