Silver Falls State Park

Silver Falls State Park in western Oregon is the state’s largest park, famed for Silver Creek’s canyon, ten waterfalls along the Trail of Ten Falls, and geologic formations that let visitors walk behind several cascades. The area was long part of the traditional lands of the Kalapuya and Molala peoples before logging and the short-lived community of Silver Falls City transformed the landscape and turned the falls into a tourist attraction. Preservation efforts led by photographer June D. Drake helped secure federal support in 1935, and Civilian Conservation Corps crews developed the park. Today it remains a major scenic destination shaped by restoration, historic preservation, and New Deal-era construction.

Oregon · United States