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Palouse Falls

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Palouse Falls is a waterfall in Washington, at a modelled elevation of 211 m. Beacon Hill stands 571 m to the east-northeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Gildersleeve Spring, a spring 4.2 miles away. JCT SR 12 VIC DELANEY TO JCT SR 260 passes 1.7 miles off. 51 named places lie within 25 miles, 7 of them named summits.

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Palouse Falls is a waterfall in the northwest United States on the Palouse River, about four miles (6 km) upstream of its confluence with the Snake River in southeast Washington. Within the 94-acre (38 ha) Palouse Falls State Park, the falls are 200 feet (61 m) in height, and consist of an upper fall with a drop around twenty feet (6 m), which lies 1,000 feet (300 m) north-northwest of the main drop, and a lower fall.

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Wikidata Q7128680, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

The record

What the record says

Height: 60 m

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Coordinates46.66340, -118.22372

1.7 mi off the JCT SR 12 VIC DELANEY TO JCT SR 260
11.5 mi off the JCT WHITMAN COUNTY LINE TO JCT SR 195 VIC OF COLFAX
16.0 mi off the JCT SR 124 VIC TRI CITIES TO 24 MILES WEST OF SR 129 VIC CLARKSTON

Around it

51 named places within 25 miles

Parks16

Stark Park: 7.4 mi
Pioneer Park: 7.5 mi
Bassett Park: 7.5 mi
Snyder Park: 7.5 mi
Sunflower Park: 7.7 mi

Springs9

Gildersleeve Spring: 4.2 mi
Hammer Spring: 6.8 mi
Goldfish Spring: 7.5 mi
Evans Spring: 7.6 mi
Bassett Spring: 8.0 mi

Nature reserves8

55-Mile Habitat Management Unit: 5.3 mi
Skookum Habitat Management Unit: 10.4 mi
Little Goose Landing Recreation Area: 10.5 mi
Dry Gulch Habitat Management Unit Recreation Area: 15.2 mi
New York Island Habitat Management Area: 17.1 mi

Ghost towns8

Grange City: 8.1 mi
Canyon: 8.4 mi
Riparia: 8.7 mi
McAdam: 9.7 mi
Pleasant View: 13.1 mi

Peaks7

Magee Hill: 12.5 mi
Monumental Rock: 12.6 mi
Beacon Hill: 14.1 mi
Coyote Butte: 15.5 mi
Black Butte: 18.3 mi

Museums1

Washtucna Historical Museum: 7.4 mi

Attractions1

#thatnwbus: 7.7 mi

Rest areas1

Dodge Junction Rest Area: 21.3 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Palouse Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Beacon Hill	ENE 76°	571 m	14.1 mi
Dodge Hill	ESE 115°	548 m	21.7 mi
Coyote Butte	NNE 15°	521 m	15.5 mi
Terksaleeze Butte	N 2°	512 m	23.2 mi
Magee Hill	E 97°	494 m	12.5 mi
Black Butte	NE 48°	450 m	18.3 mi
Monumental Rock	WSW 247°	216 m	12.6 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	06:57	18:26	19:06
June solstice	05:00	20:04	20:51
September equinox	06:41	18:12	18:52
December solstice	07:35	15:17	16:08

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	32	36	42	49	57	64	71	70	61	49	39	31
Precip in	2.0	1.3	1.7	1.3	1.3	1.0	0.3	0.3	0.5	1.1	2.0	2.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lacrosse, 19 mi away.

Streamflow

Months at or above the year’s average flow: Jan–May — fullest in Mar, leanest in Aug.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean cfs	973	1,572	1,802	1,291	623	264	82.7	33.6	38.5	68.2	144	408

USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Palouse River AT Hooper, WA, 8 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Wikipedia Wikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/666692178

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