Toketee Falls Circus

Toketee Falls
A view of Toketee Falls from the viewing platform at the end of the trail.
User: Austin Explorer - 6/8/2022

Location: Umpqua National Forest

Rating: 2stars
Difficulty: 3stars  Solitude: 1star
Miles Hiked: 1.29 Miles  Elapsed Time: 45 minutes

Comments:

Toketee Falls was chosen as the photo to grace the cover of the excellent Thundering Waters brochure.  This is the very brochure that drew us to the area.  So perhaps it should have been no surprise that the parking area for this hike was busy compared to others on our trip.  What was shocking is the parking lot being full.  People were everywhere on this trail to such an extent that it felt like DisneyWorld.

We were met in the parking lot by the sight of an odd timbered aquaduct.  The enormous pipeline seemed to be leaking as much water as it was carrying to its destination.  It's part of the Toketee Project, which generates enough electricity to power over 22,000 homes.  So despite the losses, most of the water must be making it through where it needs to go!

Unlike many trails on our trip the muddiness started early.  A bit later the trail will move above the North Umpqua River and become less muddy and a bit rockier.

An overlook about half way through the trail looms over a couple of potholes in the river.  The cylindrical depressions in the bedrock beneath the turbulent river are caused by the grinding action of rocks and sediment that get caught in eddies.

The viewing platform at the end of the trail provides a view of the falls below.

Overall, it's not a bad little hike.  But we saw more people on this one trail than we saw on all of our other Oregon waterfalls hikes in total by a large margin.  It was just shocking.



Log Photos
Toketee Falls
Little Dutch Boy
Stairs
North Umpqua Rivert
Viewing platform
Toketee Falls Closeup
Potholes
Toketee Falls and pool
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