# 🥾 Tumalo Falls — Bend, Oregon 📅 **Date Hiked:** 5-18-25 📏 **Distance:** 6 miles (Out and Back) ⛰️ **Elevation Gain:** 2000 🔥 **Difficulty:** Easy ⭐ **Rating:** 4 🐕 **Dog Friendly:** Yes 🗺️ **Trailhead Map:** --- ### 🏔️ Trail Summary Basically just a long gravel road walk to one of the most beautiful waterfalls I have ever seen. We are from WA. There is a trail to the right of the gravel road for some of the trip. Kinda a weird one to be honest, but waterfall is really cool. The sound of it is so powerful. I fantasized how insane it would be to accidentally go off the end and it was terrifying, but truly a magnificent waterfall and that's probably the first time I've ever used the word magnificent to describe anything. --- ### ✅ Highlights The waterfall was huge, like the drop...long way down...Kinda surreal. --- ### 🗒️ Notes We just really enjoyed watching Noctis run around off leash since it was such a long, wide gravel road. Very little actual trail hiking. I bet there is more above we just didn't have snow gear. We drove here from WA to escape the rain. Kinda worth it...kinda not worth it... --- ### 📸 Photo Drop <div style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 24px;"> <img src="assets/images/noctis/tumalonoctis.jpg" style="max-width: auto; border-radius: 8px;"> <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 1.25em; color: #aaa; margin-top: 4px;"> 🌊 <em>CHEESE!</em> </div> </div> --- <div style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 24px;"> <img src="assets/images/backpacking/tumalofalls1.jpg" style="max-width: auto; border-radius: 8px;"> <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 1.25em; color: #aaa; margin-top: 4px;"> <em>That's a big waterfall...</em> </div> </div> --- <div style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 24px;"> <img src="assets/images/backpacking/tumalofalls3.jpg" style="max-width: auto; border-radius: 8px;"> <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 1.25em; color: #aaa; margin-top: 4px;"> <em>From the top...</em> </div> </div> --- *Generated via Trail Review Form v1*