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Always a good time at Mashel Falls. Don't forget to hit The Mill Haus on the way out ;)

(Very thankful that unlike other summers, there has been little to no trash when I've gone)

This was our first time and it was a fun short hike with rewarding falls and pools. We parked at the park to cut down the distance. The lower falls were nice and had a swimmable pool to cool off in. Other hikers climbed the steepish rocks to the left of the lower falls and made their way up to the middle falls - we went back the way we came and went straight to the upper falls. These are more like pools of water overflowing to other pools before the big drop that makes up middle falls.

All accesses to the falls have some type of trail obstacle from dilapidated steps, to steep rocks, or downed trees. Very passable, but one will have to navigate some sketchy or awkward trail to reach water at any portion of the falls.

Lots of gnats buzzing around, but they didn’t bother us at all. No mosquitoes between 4-6pm when we were on the trail.

All in all, a fun short hike. Highly recommend it!

Little Fall and Middle Falls good trail conditions. Upper Falls trail was a little sketchy in places so trend cautiously

The trail is not the best marked, but the Park trail description was a little better, giving you the detail of the 1000 marker where the gate is, and then the unmarked junction after 1050/1060 (there is a white and a blue diamond on a tree) and I think both mention the rock with “Falls” written on it. We did both trails, first going up to the upper falls (the least impressive of the bunch). The middle/lower falls are the left and downward junction at the white/blue diamond split, and is better marked but if you aren’t paying attention it would be easy to miss the junction for the lower falls.

The middle falls are easily the best of the bunch, pretty impressive, with the lower falls less so but still better than the upper falls. Almost all of the elevation comes after the 1070 unmarked junction, the prior 1.9 miles is relatively flat. Doing all 3 falls was not difficult.