Fall Creek

  • Easy (to Timber Creek)
  • 5.8 miles round trip
  • 200 feet elevation gain
  • Open all year


  • Moderate (to Road 1828 with shuttle)
  • 9 miles one way
  • 700 feet elevation gain

The popular trail along this woodsy, low-elevation creek has attractions for each season: fall mushrooms, winter solitude, spring wildflowers, and best of all, summertime swimming holes. For an easy hike, turn back at Timber Creek. Or shuttle a bicycle to the upper trailhead, hike 9 miles of the trail one-way, and shoosh back on 7 miles of pavement to your car.

To start, drive Interstate …

The trail begins in an …

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The Fall Creek Trail continues …

This chapter is an excerpt from 100 Hikes/Travel Guide: Central Oregon Cascades.