Mistaken Identity for "Gilbert Creek Falls"

On March 5, we drove again to this area and discovered the *real* Gilbert Creek Falls. We had two things wrong in our Feb. 20 visit. First the Falls that flows into Coast Creek is not the one called Gilbert Creek Falls. Second, the stream just downstream from the falls that flows into Coast Creek is not Gilbert Creek. It is Canada Creek. The real Gilbert Creek Falls is, appropriately enough, on Gilbert Creek. My blog post titled "The Real Gilbert Creek Falls" has photos and info. It is quite spectacular... and quite inaccessible. We were invited to see it by chance. Below is what I wrote on Feb. 20 about the falls we mistook for Gilbert Creek Falls.

On Feb. 20, 2016, we drove to Gilbert Creek Rd. and Coast Creek Rd. looking for the falls called Gilbert Creek Falls in the Northwest Waterfalls Survey site. We found a lovely waterfall near but not connected to Gilbert Creek. It flows off the side of a ridge into Coast Creek just a few yards upstream... and on the opposite side... from where Gilbert Creek flows under Coast Creek Rd. and into Coast Creek. The falls is located across Coast Creek from a private residence. Trees lining Coast Creek Rd. make it difficult to see the falls. Once they leaf out, it will be impossible to see it.

Hopefully we'll be able to meet the property owners some day and ask what *they* call that waterfall. I doubt very much they call it Gilbert Creek Falls.

Because of the trees lining the road, I was unable to get an unobstructed view of the falls. I climbed the bank on the opposite side of the road from the house and creek and falls and took photos through the branches. Not all of the waterfall is visible as a result.

The maps do not show the creek that creates the falls so I was unable to pinpoint the GPS. My guesstimate is
45.156293
-123.527095

Property the waterfall is on and property where it is visible from is all privately owned (according to our color-coded forest maps) so the waterfall is not accessible except in a drive-by on the gravel Coast Creek Rd.