Snoqualmie Falls - Seattle - TravBuddy

Barely 25 miles east of Seattle is the small community of Snoqualmie. And the highlight of this area is Snoqualmie Falls, which was just downstream from the oldest hydro-electric plant in the Pacific Northwest. The area is very visitor friendly with a huge parking lot and wonderful two-acre park with large gift shop, visitor center, and observation platform. It is disabled friendly and wheelchair accessible and the observation area to the upper view of the falls is less than 200 yards from the parking area. You can also take the steep trail down to the river below and get a great view up at the falls. That trail is a half mile each way. There is no charge for parking or the falls. Naturally, higher water levels in early spring make this 270 foot waterfall more spectacular because the width and amount of water is so much greater, but even in late July it was well worth seeing.