Early Spring at Fall Creek Falls

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Fall Creek Falls in Swan Valley Idaho is a popular attraction for visitors and photographers as well. It is an almost 60-foot-tall cascading waterfall on the Snake River that is easy to access from the highway. Although the roadway goes right alongside the falls, there is no designated parking area and the only access is a rather rough couple of trails that are not easy to find, with some steep climbs. It is most often photographed from the roadside at a high angle, which can be beautiful as well, but after shooting a few photos from above, I wanted to find a way to get down to the base of the falls. After a little searching, I found a steep pathway with a rope suspended to hang on to while descending. It wasn’t much of a challenge for me due to the amount of scrambling and climbing I have done, but there were a couple of visitors there trying to get back up that made me wonder if they were going to ever get out of there! After waiting about 5 minutes, I decided to go down beside the trail without the rope and bypass the struggling folks! I was able to find several good locations to shoot from at the base, and this is one of my favorites.