When the park is full, you may have to park in the nearby picnic area parking lot and walk over. The magnificent waterfall tumbles down a rocky, forested, glacier-carved cliff, dropping 100 feet before cascading over a talus slope, into a small pool, and disappearing beneath Crater Rim Drive.Ī wide pull out provides parking, but it’s not very big and can fill up fast. Vidae Falls is a part of Vidae Creek, which flows from small, consistent spring near the Crater Lake caldera rim 600 feet above the lake’s surface. For information or inquiries about the area as well as current conditions, visit their website.Because it is accessible from the side of the road, Vidae Falls is the most popular and well-known waterfall in Crater Lake National Park. It is administered by the City of Idaho Falls. The Idaho Falls Waterfall resides in Idaho Falls in Bonneville County, Idaho. It only took us a few minutes to take all this in. Within that park, there were the familiar trimmed hedges, mini pagodas, and coy ponds – basically stuff you’d expect to see in a typical Japanese Garden. This allowed us to view the scene with the Idaho Falls Temple in the background.įurther downstream, there was a pleasant little Japanese-inspired garden in a spot known as Friendship Park. Julie checking out the ‘Friendship Park’ at Idaho Falls
We were also able to view the Sanke River and waterfall from the Broadway Street Bridge. The city planted flowers alongside the walkway to give the area a bit of color.
Then, we crossed that street to a viewing area and walkway along the Snake River looking right across it at the rocks supporting the cascade. We managed to experience Idaho Falls the waterfall by parking at the Residence Inn by Broadway Street. Experiencing Idaho Falls Looking over the Friendship Garden just across the bridge from the Residence Inn at Idaho Falls That event resulted in the rebuilding of the dam maintaining the Snake River diversion over the present-day waterfall as well as some additional diversions and infrastructure (for a new bulb-turbine hydroelectric plant) further downstream.
Old pictures showed the waterfall being completely inundated leaving behind a small dropping cascade over where the rock walls were. This occurred in the town of Newsdale, Idaho some 45 miles away, which overwhelmed downtown Idaho Falls and resulted in about two feet of standing water throughout the downtown area. The waterfall also had a bit more of a recent history when a massive surge of water from the Teton Dam failure in 1976. When a project to create the city’s first power plant was underway, it “tamed the rapids into the picturesque falls we enjoy today.” Looking over a colorful garden towards the Idaho Falls in downtown Idaho Falls
KLAMATH FALLS WATERFALL SERIES
It reported that back at the turn of the century in the early 1900s, the Snake River through Idaho Falls was “a series of rough rapids”. This website courtesy of Bonneville Heritage shed some light on the history of the Snake River. Nevertheless, we’ve erred on the side of giving the benefit of the doubt to this waterfall being legitimate though I’m sure the truth about it will come out some day. Looking back towards the Broadstreet Bridge and part of Idaho Falls in downtown Idaho Falls I’ve also heard of reports that this site used to be rapids on the Snake River. If that was true, then those rocks were nothing more than riverbanks to channel the Snake River and not necessarily having water naturally coming over them. One could argue that it was because of the man-made dams that the flow of the Snake River was made to flow over the rocks that you see pictured at the top of this page.
Is Idaho Falls legitimate? Idaho Falls and the Idaho Falls Temple in the distanceīut with the history of the Idaho Falls before it was interfered with (said to have occurred as early as the 1900s) being murky at best, it was hard to tell whether this particular waterfall was legitimate or not. So we didn’t expect to be checking out a waterfall worth visiting when we stayed in the city of Idaho Falls as a stopover for our drive from Yellowstone National Park to Boise.Įven then, we never considered this being a legitimate waterfall worthy of being discussed on this website. Typically, such large waterfalls would provide power for electricity, transport, milling, etc. However, they usually only pertained to man-made waterfalls or waterfalls that were once there but had been completely destroyed in the name of development. In our experience, we’ve seen many cities with the name “Falls” in them (Grand Falls, Klamath Falls, Twin Falls, Sioux Falls, Wichita Falls, etc. Idaho Falls was one of those waterfalls that not only pertained to the name of the waterfall, but it was also the name of the city in which it sat at its heart.
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