Pomerleau Family Blog: Silver Creek Falls

Some of the State Parks began to open in the middle of May and our next door neighbors went to Silver Falls and had such a good time. Brooke and her two older kids went with us and met us there in separate cars. We left pretty early in the morning as we heard it could get crowded and wanted to be careful with the virus going on. We also wanted to hike the majority of the waterfalls which we knew could take time. I packed our lunch the night before and we got the park at around 10:30 AM just before it was starting to get busy. It was overcast but not raining which was a plus!

Excited to hike!

The boys on the trail

Hugs from Addie

We left the parking lot and headed the less traveled way over to the Winter Falls trailhead. WE headed along the Rim trail and came to the beautiful Winter Falls which were quite robust still from all the spring rain. They were my favorite falls and there was hardly anyone nearby which was super nice. We decided the kids probably couldn't do the full 7.5 mile trek where you got to see all 10 water falls but instead took them on the Winter Falls Loop which was 5.6 miles and we got to see 8 waterfalls as we went off the trail to see an extra one.

Beautiful Winter Falls

Addie and Olivia in front of Winter Falls

Logan and Brandon in front of Winter falls

Only visible after the Winter months as it dries out in the summer

We had fun going over a bridge on our way to the Middle North Falls. The bridge made for some really cute pictures.

Besties

Love this one of the two kiddos

Sweet picture of Olivia on the bridge

Exploring on our way to Middle North Falls

Middle North Falls

Olivia took this picture of us


In front of Middle North Falls

Lunch time on a log

Hiking to Middle North Falls

Double Falls was a bit hard to see through the foliage

Middle North Falls

Beautiful Middle North Falls

We got to go behind the Middle North Falls which was super cool

Middle North Falls-we got to go under the waterfall!

The Middle North Falls was my second favorite waterfall

Middle North Falls

Beautiful bottom of Middle North Falls

Drake Falls

Viewpoint of Drake Falls

After we passed the Middle North Falls we headed over to the Drake Falls which were much smaller than the falls we had seen and less spectacular. We then took a short 0.5 mile detour up to Double Falls which was well worth the detour.

Beautiful Double Falls

After the Double Falls we kept going and got to the Lower north Falls fairly quickly. This waterfallw as quite a bit smaller but the foliage around it was beautiful.

Lower North Falls

After the Lower North Falls we walked about a 1.5 miles to the Lower South Falls. It was more crowded by the Lower South and South Falls as they are two most popular waterfalls and it is also an easy hike from the parking lot to them. The kids were pretty tired at this point but were being troopers. The Lower South Falls were beautiful and we got to go behind another waterfall which was fun! The South Falls were more crowded but still beautiful. The ends ended up hiking 6 miles and earned a Dairy Queen treat on our way home! It was so fun being outside and I had a blast taking pictures.