Prospect Falls

Prospect Falls is located just outside the town of Prospect. Following Highway 62 south from Crater Lake, turn east on Mill Creek Road about 2/3 of a mile north of the Highway's crossing of the Rogue River. Follow Mill Creek Road through town for approximately one mile to the bridge spanning the Rogue River and park in the large turnout on the left before the bridge. Paralleling the canyon, walk through the woods for 100 feet to an old roadbed, then follow the road for 500 feet towards the river until an unobstructed angle of the canyon and falls comes into view.Prospect Falls is a moderate series of cascades long the Rogue River immediately outside the small town of Prospect, south of Crater Lake. The river drops through a chiseled wall of block and slides and skips down a series of small steps before petering into a long stretch of boulders, totaling about 50 vertical feet in height. This waterfall would be much more impressive if the Rogue River hadn't been harnessed in a hydroelectric scheme just upstream of the waterfall - because of which the flow of the river is almost always greatly reduced and the falls are more of an afterthought to the area. If you manage to visit when the river is running at full force, this is a decent attraction, but otherwise its worth skipping in favor of the falls on nearby Mill and Barr Creeks.To the best of my knowledge this cascade has never been officially named - the current title was coined in 1983 by Greg Plumb in the book "Waterfalls of the Pacific Northwest".