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Ladder Creek Falls
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Nicholas
June 27, 2022
Located behind the Gorge Powerhouse in Newhalem, Ladder Creek Falls offers a refreshing woodland retreat with exotic flora and close-up views of the third tier of this spectacular waterfall. When the hydroelectric project near Ross Lake was under construction during the 1930s and '40s, owner and developer J.D. Ross built a trail to nearby Ladder Creek Falls to showcase the area. The falls and surrounding gardens quickly became a tourist attraction, illuminated at night with colored lights and livened up by music that was piped in on Friday evenings for visitors who came from Seattle for a night out. The light show remains an attraction, running a 15 minute repeating program from dusk until midnight year-round, but the falls are enjoyable at any time, day or night. After the construction of the Powerhouse, the falls lost much of their volume to the dam upstream. But because the diversion is above the falls, enough water remains in glacier-fed Ladder Creek to allow for year-round flow. There are signs marking the short informative trail near the powerhouse. Meander along the path to the loud and misty falls, which offer a great respite from heat on hot summer afternoons. The path is paved and there are several benches to rest on. Enjoy the falls, and then return to your car over a small suspension bridge. That offers a more direct route than the one you arrived on.
Located behind the Gorge Powerhouse in Newhalem, Ladder Creek Falls offers a refreshing woodland retreat with exotic flora and close-up views of the third tier of this spectacular waterfall. When the hydroelectric project near Ross Lake was under construction during the 1930s and '40s, owner and dev…
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State Route 20
Newhalem, WA