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Bridal Veil Falls, on Bridal Veil Creek in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge, drops 118 feet in two tiers over basalt cliffs, its veil-like spread shaped by angled rockfaces and a softer basalt layer beneath the upper fall. Unlike many seasonal cascades, it is fed year-round by underground springs from Larch Mountain, though upstream logging once dried the creek until the stream later returned. The site is crossed by the 1914 Bridal Veil Falls Bridge, a reinforced-concrete span on the Historic Columbia River Highway and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Nearby Bridal Veil developed around paper, logging, sawmilling, and later box-making before industry ended in 1988.
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