Palouse Falls

Palouse Falls is a 198-foot plunge waterfall on the Palouse River in eastern Washington, pouring through a basalt canyon formed during the cataclysmic Missoula Floods of the last ice age. The state park overlook sits at the canyon rim and provides a direct view of the falls dropping into a circular plunge pool, with the dry coulees of the channeled scablands stretching beyond. The spring snowmelt season in March and April produces the highest water volumes and most dramatic conditions.