Middle Siouxon Falls

Take SR 503 to the town of Chelatchie and turn east onto NE Healy Road. Follow this road, which becomes FSR 54 after a couple miles, for 9 miles and bear left (uphill) on FSR 57 (54 turns to gravel at this point while 57 remains paved). Just over one mile further turn left onto FSR 5701 (still paved) and follow it to its end 3 3/4 miles further at the Siouxon Creek Trailhead. The falls are found 4 1/2 miles from the trailhead - about half a mile after the junction with the Chinook Trail #130A (at the footbridge).Middle Siouxon Falls is the largest waterfall found along Siouxon Creek, but few people ever visit it because of the distance its located from the trailhead and more noteworthy waterfalls found elsewhere in the drainage. The falls are a 37 foot tall horsetail which turns into a wide sliding block-type waterfall at high water. The falls begin as a cascade and roll over a rounded ledge, ending as a vertical drop into a large pool framed by ferns and a mossy carpet along the banks of the creek. Though the falls can be seen from the trail as it passes adjacent, a short scramble off-trail is necessary to view the waterfall unobstructed.Though this is the true Middle Siouxon Falls, the 4th edition of the book "A Waterfall Lover's Guide to the Pacific Northwest" incorrectly identifies the 9-foot fall seen 1/3 of a mile upstream of Siouxon Falls as the middle falls.