Fairy Falls

Fairy Falls is a waterfall in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, created by an unnamed tributary of the Cowlitz River. It drops about 680 feet in a horsetail curtain roughly 20 feet wide into a narrow wooded canyon. The falls were once fed in part by meltwater from the Paradise Glacier through one fork of Stevens Creek above the tree line, while another fork formed Upper Stevens Creek Falls. As the glacier retreated during the 20th century, Fairy Falls lost that glacial source and came to rely entirely on annual snowfall. Its flow now decreases sharply in late summer and may disappear in drought years.

Washington · United States