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A 249-foot waterfall in the Columbia River Gorge that drops straight off an overhanging basalt cliff within Guy W. Talbot State Park, named for French-Canadian settler Joseph Latourell. The falls sit along the Historic Columbia River Highway, opened in 1916 as the nation's first scenic highway and deliberately routed to showcase waterfalls like this one.

A 118-foot, two-tiered waterfall in the Columbia River Gorge that ran nearly dry for decades after a lumber company diverted its creek to power a sawmill beginning in 1886. The mill closed in 1960 and the flumes were removed, restoring the falls, which are now reached from the historic Columbia River Highway.

A 150-foot horsetail waterfall on Coopey Creek in the Columbia River Gorge near Bridal Veil, Oregon, reached via the Angel's Rest Trail off the Historic Columbia River Highway. It's the first of two falls hikers encounter on the route, with Upper Coopey Falls a short distance beyond.

A 520-foot, two-tiered waterfall in the Columbia River Gorge near Multnomah Falls, named for the fine spray it throws as it drops down the cliff face. Despite ranking among Oregon's tallest year-round waterfalls, it draws little attention, overshadowed by its far more famous neighbor barely a mile away.

At 620 feet, Oregon's tallest waterfall and one of the most visited sites in the Columbia River Gorge, drawing over two million visitors annually. A popular 19th-century legend tells of a Multnomah chief's daughter who sacrificed herself leaping from the cliff to save her people from plague, with the falls said to have sprung forth in answer to her father's prayer.

A 55-foot waterfall on Multnomah Creek in the Columbia River Gorge, the first of two upper falls encountered above the famous Multnomah Falls. Named in 1997 for longtime Forest Service ranger Albert Wiesendanger, later a driving force behind the Keep Oregon Green wildfire-prevention campaign.