SWEET CREEK FALLS LbNA #8131
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | May 4, 2004 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Mapleton |
| County: | Lane |
| State: | Oregon |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | luedon  |
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| Found by: | AtomicKnits |
| Last found: | Feb 28, 2010 |
| Status: | FFFFaFFaa |
| Last edited: | May 4, 2004 |
The box was checked on 9/26/2006. It was in good condition and being used.
Either way you hike it, do it for enjoyment. Thrill at approaching the stream. Think of the salmon it MUST hold. Just enjoy all you see; and the longer you walk, the more you'll see and enjoy.
To get there take highway 126 and just South of the bridge at Mapleton, turn left and stay on the Sweet Creek Road for about 10 miles. A small sign marks the turn-off to the paved Homestead Trail parking lot.
Sweet Creek Falls Trail is scenic, well maintained, with ups and downs and rock outcroppings--even small boardwalks. It has a round trip length of 3.5 miles. It starts at Homestead Trailhead where there are rest rooms and picnic tables. After about one mile you will get to the falls. Farther up the road is the Sweet Creek Falls Trailhead which is 1/2 mile from the falls. You can enjoy pioneering that trail without directions.
But, to best enjoy the show of flow and go, start up the trail from Homestead Trailhead. After 1/4 mile look for the spot where the water sparkles and shimmers with a scintillating glint. Continue on 1/4 mile seeking a site where the flow and roll creates a show of trickles, drips, dribbles and slides. Persist another 440 yards, pause and discover dancing waters cascading through a cataract of any size as you harken to the sound of the water's passage. Use 528, 30 inch paces: You'll soon notice the race of bubbles, foam and froth, and the pleasant gurgle of a timeless stream. Pace on and what do you see--a rock wall, a plummeting stream, ripples in the pool? Well then, you're at the falls!
WHAT'S THIS?? A side trail branches off to the left and goes up. DON'T WORRY! Just two more steps to hollow log slanting down to the trail with a large rock at it's bottom end. There is a smaller log beside the hollow log. The box was planted under the larger log and beneath a rock at near trail height. This can be a hard find: The ferns have grown and the earth isn't very stable. Hide it well in the same spot when no one's near; and, let us know if there are problems with the box.
Don't forget that there is a real beauty with a shorter walk up the road at Beaver Creek Falls. Don't miss that one either.
Either way you hike it, do it for enjoyment. Thrill at approaching the stream. Think of the salmon it MUST hold. Just enjoy all you see; and the longer you walk, the more you'll see and enjoy.
To get there take highway 126 and just South of the bridge at Mapleton, turn left and stay on the Sweet Creek Road for about 10 miles. A small sign marks the turn-off to the paved Homestead Trail parking lot.
Sweet Creek Falls Trail is scenic, well maintained, with ups and downs and rock outcroppings--even small boardwalks. It has a round trip length of 3.5 miles. It starts at Homestead Trailhead where there are rest rooms and picnic tables. After about one mile you will get to the falls. Farther up the road is the Sweet Creek Falls Trailhead which is 1/2 mile from the falls. You can enjoy pioneering that trail without directions.
But, to best enjoy the show of flow and go, start up the trail from Homestead Trailhead. After 1/4 mile look for the spot where the water sparkles and shimmers with a scintillating glint. Continue on 1/4 mile seeking a site where the flow and roll creates a show of trickles, drips, dribbles and slides. Persist another 440 yards, pause and discover dancing waters cascading through a cataract of any size as you harken to the sound of the water's passage. Use 528, 30 inch paces: You'll soon notice the race of bubbles, foam and froth, and the pleasant gurgle of a timeless stream. Pace on and what do you see--a rock wall, a plummeting stream, ripples in the pool? Well then, you're at the falls!
WHAT'S THIS?? A side trail branches off to the left and goes up. DON'T WORRY! Just two more steps to hollow log slanting down to the trail with a large rock at it's bottom end. There is a smaller log beside the hollow log. The box was planted under the larger log and beneath a rock at near trail height. This can be a hard find: The ferns have grown and the earth isn't very stable. Hide it well in the same spot when no one's near; and, let us know if there are problems with the box.
Don't forget that there is a real beauty with a shorter walk up the road at Beaver Creek Falls. Don't miss that one either.