This popular loop is a waterfall lover’s paradise. There are six officially named waterfalls on this trip as well as countless cascades and intermittent falls. The loop can be hiked either direction, and it can be started from either trailhead.
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The description below begins at Multnomah Falls and goes clockwise: up the Larch Mountain Trail along Multnomah Creek, and then west along the Wahkeena Trail and down to Wahkeena Falls, then back east on the Return Trail #442 above the Historic Columbia River Highway back to Multnomah Falls Lodge. There are short diversions to the Multnomah Falls Upper Viewpoint, Wahkeena Spring, The Necktie (not for kids, dogs, and the fainthearted), and Lemmons Viewpoint. Almost the entire area of the loop was impacted by the 2017 Eagle Creek Fire. Much of the understory was burned away, and there are areas of crown fire along the Wahkeena Trail.