Upper East Fork Falls

The Coos Bay Wagon Road runs along the East Fork Coquille River between the towns of Myrtle Point and Tenmile, and is accessed from Highway 42 on both ends. Our directions will describe the approach from the west only. Take Highway 42 to the town of Myrtle Point and turn east onto Sitkum Lane at the very north end of town. After 19 miles pass through the small town of Dora. Continue another 11 miles, passing through Brewster Valley and the small town of Sitkum and then into the heart of Brewster Canyon, to where Lower East Fork Falls can be seen next to the road. Continue another seven-tenths of a mile to where the road makes a right-hand bend, immediately after which a short muddy spur road runs down to the campsite adjacent to the falls. If you pass a rickety wooden bridge on the left, you've gone a few hundred feet too far.The Coquille River's East Fork is the smallest of the four branches of its namesake river, and though it isn't endowed with any powerful or impressive waterfalls, it is very well endowed in scenery including a handful of small but very pretty cascades. The four major waterfalls marked on the USGS Sitkum 7-1/2" quadrangle are located in the heart of Brewster Canyon, located along the old Coos Bay Wagon Road between the small hamlets of Sitkum and Reston. On the map the canyon doesn't look like much, but driving through it feels remarkably remote and wild. Three of these four waterfalls can be found within about three-quarters of a mile of one another. The upper of the three falls which is marked on the map is actually insignificant enough to be considered very much an edge case for this database - we opted to consider it a legitimate entry both because it has a long history of reference in Greg Plumb's Waterfall Lover's Guide books, and is marked on the topographic maps. The so-called falls consist of a 100-foot long waterslide-like cascade which drops 13 feet in all, with the terminus of the falls accounting for about 6-7 feet of that drop and the rest made up in the shallower portion of the slides just above.