I was not quite brave enough to go out on that rock in the foreground. It might have made a better picture, but I'm old so that shot is for younger knees.

If a road is washed out by a stream, the road is usually repaired because it's the most practical thing to do. Well, apparently in the early 20th century, practicality was not of great concern. The original Columbia River Highway was constructed paralleling close to Warren Creek's major waterfall, Warren Falls. During high water, the creek would often wash out the road, so, rather than repairing or just moving the road, in 1938 someone decided to move the waterfall. A tunnel was blasted through the adjacent cliff, through which the creek was diverted, and Hole-in-the-Wall Falls was born. You can bushwhack along the old stream-bed for a couple hundred feet to the site where Warren Falls used to be situated. The falls never actually impacted the road itself, but rather the creek was directed such that the roadbed would frequently be damaged from flood water.

Hole in the Wall Falls, Columbia Gorge, Oregon

Even this waterfall was flowing over the top. I wanted to get close detail images, but the spray...

Hole-In-The-Wall-Falls is roughly 96 feet tall and is part of Warren Creek in the Columbia River Gorge. The falls also have a bit of a history....