Bible Creek Falls

 On March 31, 2016, we hiked down to the roaring Bible Creek Falls. The sound is the only way to find it as it is many feet below the road and completely out of sight. We had spotted the area on a previous evening when mist from the falls drifted up into sight. We had clocked the spot at 1.2 miles from the junction of Nestucca River Road and Bible Creek Rd. Just past an old red 4 on a mile marker is a bend in the road and then a sort of grassy pull off where we parked. We hiked straight down from that pull off and arrived at the top of the falls. We could not see if there was more to the falls than this initial drop of maybe 20 feet. It then flattened out for another maybe 20 feet and disappeared.

  So we hiked downstream to where we could see the second drop, which is mostly occluded by logs. The creek is forced to go on either side of a massive log jam and also under it, surging out in froth below one vertical log. I hiked down to where I could see the entire falls, or as much as can be seen from any one spot. The upper falls is above the log jam in the photo below, the flat spot invisible behind the log jam, the water going around the log jam on both sides is barely visible, and then the lower drop with its log in the middle of itself.

Johnny stayed where he could see the top of the falls... and me as I made my way along the cliff.

I had a little more view of the flat below the top falls from a position higher on the steep (nearly vertical) cliff.

 On my hike back out of the gorge, I came to a spot where I could see the falls between trees.

Without having seen the mist rising from the falls that one evening, it would have been a challenge to find this falls. It is louder above but since you cannot see the falls until you are almost to it, it takes an act of faith to head down that steep, wooded and brushy cliff. We were not able to measure it, but the 56 feet on the Northwest Waterfall Survey page seemed about right, counting all three drops.