Lorquin’s Admiral and 227-foot Starvation Creek Falls
Starveout Creek In the mid-Columbia River Gorge, a creek (and later its falls) was originally named "Starveout Creek" due to a wreck in 1884 where two trains were trapped in a blizzard for two weeks. Nobody died, but it was clearly nip and tuck for awh…
In the mid-Columbia River Gorge, a creek (and later its falls) was originally named "Starveout Creek" due to a wreck in 1884 where two trains were trapped in a blizzard for two weeks. Nobody died, but it was clearly nip and tuck for awhile.
Fast forward to today and the 227-foot Starvation Creek Falls drops out of a slot and into a natural bowl, where the creek spills down through a large bed of rocks before cascading past a picnic area and on to the Columbia River.
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