Just Another Day In Paradise! - Columbia River Gorge, Oregon

Chris- Alex - Snowy - Cotton - My Husband and I went to: Sandy River - Multnomah Falls - Bridge of the Gods on July, 31st 2009.

Multnomah Falls is a waterfall on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge, located east of Troutdale, between Corbett and Dodson, along the Historic Columbia River Highway. The falls drops in two major steps, split into an upper falls of 542 feet and a lower falls of 69 feet , with a gradual 9 foot drop in elevation between the two, so the total height of the waterfall is conventionally given as 620 feet . Multnomah Falls is the tallest waterfall in the State of Oregon.

A stream of glacial origin, the Sandy River begins in the Mount Hood National Forest, just west of Mount Hood, snaking its way some 40 miles to where it flows into the Columbia River near Troutdale. A long-time top producer, the Sandy offers spring and fall Chinook salmon, coho salmon, as well as both winter and summer steelhead

The original Bridge of the Gods was created during the eighteenth century by the Bonneville Slide, a major landslide which dammed the Columbia River, near present-day Cascade Locks, Oregon in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The river eventually removed it, but this event is remembered in local legends of the Native Americans as the Bridge of the Gods.

It is now the name of a bridge, the Bridge of the Gods, across the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington.

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