Today, we head back home from Oregon. My plan was to stop by McArthur Burney falls on the way home. It's a little detour and adds an extra hour to our drive but I felt it will be a good detour as I have seen pictures of the waterfalls and wanted to check it out. President Roosevelt has once described the falls as the eighth wonder of the world. While halfway into our drive, our friends called us and told us that they went to the wrong destination and probably won't be able to join us as they are almost 1 hour behind us now. They enter the address in their GPS, however they forgot to change the state to California and kept it as Oregon since that's our last destination we entered. The GPS took them to a forest and that's when they realized that they were going to the wrong place.
After driving for more than 2 hours, we finally reached Burney Falls. The drive there wasn't hard at all. First, we paid our $8 entrance fee, then I stopped by the visitor center while the kids put on their sunblock and insect repellent.
The park ranger told me that by crossing the parking lot, there is a falls overlook 150 feet away. Then we can walk downwards to the base of the falls for about 0.3 mile. If we feel up to it, there is an easy falls loop hike about 1.2 mile roundtrip that we could do.
At the falls overlook, we could see the falls but it wasn't a very good view as the trees were covering some of our views.
So, we decided to head down to see the falls. It was a fairly easy walk to the base of the falls. On the way, we saw different views of the falls.
There were some people swimming and we tried to touch the water, it was freezing cold. We decided to continue and do the falls loop hike.
On the way, we passed by the creek and the signs showing that there are rainbow trout in the water. Each person is only allowed 2 trouts per day.
Then we had to cross a wooden bridge to continue the hike.
On the way, we saw a lizard and a squirrel.
Finally, we reached the end of the falls loop hike and could see the waterfalls closer. Then, we turned and made our way back to the base of the waterfalls.
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