Palouse Falls Day Trip

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Many think Washington state is all forest since it's called the green state. It has an eastern area and that is where I am currently living. Today we drove another 108 miles east to get to Palouse Falls. It's desert with beautiful columnar basalt. Palouse Falls State Heritage Park remote and pretty off grid. The nearest store is about 8 miles down the road at Lyon's Ferry in the KOA camping area. If you want to get off grid, this is the place to do it. No cell service in most areas. It's one reason I decided not to host out there. With rattle snakes, cliffs, my health and other natural disasters waiting to happen, I need a phone. The day use viewing area has three trails but only two were accessible today with one having a gate part way. Carved more than 13,000 years ago, the Palouse River drops 200 feet into a bowl and then winds through the gorge of basalt to the Snake River. It is also known as Aput Aput, "Falling Water" named by the Palouse Indians. It was named Washington's State waterfall in 2014. We had great weather out there today. The rain stopped, sun came out but the windchill was a bit nippy. Do you have a waterfall near where you live? Edited to add a photo I took while there.