Puff Falls

Puff Falls is a very aptly titled plunging punchbowl type waterfall along Dry Creek near Government Mineral Springs in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The falls spray 133 feet over the edge of a bowl-shaped amphitheater of andesite into a large aqua-tinted pool surrounded with rocky beaches, perfect for swimming and sunbathing on a hot summer day. Dry Creek flows all year long but flows with considerably more vigor during the winter and early spring months. Because there is no real trail to the falls and crossing the creek several times is necessary, the high stream flow seen during the winter and spring months may make this waterfall more or less inaccessible for as much as half of the year. By late June the water level should be low enough that the hike should be hazard free.The Forest Service more often than not calls this one Dry Creek Falls, but Puff Falls seems to be a colloquial name of older and more widespread origin.