Comet Falls

Comet Falls, on Van Trump Creek in Mount Rainier National Park, is widely regarded as one of the region’s finest waterfalls. It drops dramatically from a hanging valley, with a main plunge of about 320 feet that can appear at first to be about 300 feet. Smaller lower tiers add about 40 and 20 feet, and an upper drop of unknown height brings the total waterfall to roughly 400 feet. Recent mudflows in 2001 carved a canyon below the falls, stripped vegetation, and filled the pool with debris, but later floods in 2003 and 2006 cleared much of it away. Strong bedrock kept the falls themselves largely unchanged.

Washington · United States