Latourell Falls Spring Hike

 Our third hike today was the Latourell Falls hike. Both the lower (224 ft) and upper falls (120 ft) are spectacular! This is a 2.3 mile loop hike with 540 ft of elevation gain.
The trail is off of I-84, west of Multnomah Falls.

 View of Lower Latourell Falls from the parking lot.

Lower Latourell Falls seen from the lower loop trail.

 We choose to go up the left side of the loop trail (south side), this gives you glimpses of Lower Latourell Falls as the trail climbs uphill.

 another view of Lower Latourell Falls

 nearing the top of the trail and our first view of Upper Latourell Falls

 nearing Upper Latourell Falls

 View of Upper Latourell Falls from the side

 Panorama view from behind Upper Latourell Falls

 getting close to the falls

The west side of the loop trail has a spur at the top of Lower Latourell Falls 

where you can look out across the Coloumbia River Gorge:

This trail goes under an interesting tree.

We saw lots of monkshood in bloom along the trail.

Some of the other wildflowers we saw on this trail today: