Snoqualmie Falls

A major attraction in this area and only 15 minutes from our campground is Snoqualmie Falls in Snoqualmie, WA. The towns of Fall City, Snoqualmie and North Bend are all within a few miles of each other and we wanted to see those towns along with the Falls. It was a beautiful day for our visit.

Our arrival at the Falls was around 10 AM:

and we immediately noticed that the sun was not in the proper position to capture the rainbow in front of the Falls. There are several different viewpoints for the Falls, but the most popular and best one is this:

The mist was rising all around from the bottom and tended to cloud the picture. The river was beautiful, and we captured the rainbow in this shot because the sun was behind us:

We walked around the beautiful park and stopped in the gift/snack shop to pick up a latte before heading out to the towns of Snoqualmie and North Bend. We also decided that, because the Falls were so close to where we are staying, we would return in the afternoon to try to get a better shot.

After a couple of hours driving around and picking up flyer's from homes on the market, we headed back to home. Prices of homes in these areas don't seem to have been impacted at all with the economy as they were out of sight for what we thought were good values.

We returned to the Falls at 4 PM and took another shot which is definitely better than the AM shots:

The sun was in a better position and there was not as much mist to cloud the picture. The Salish Lodge, seen next to the Falls, is a high priced but classy place for visitors to spend some quality overnight time in the area. We remember having dinner at this lodge years ago and it was pricey back then - we can only imagine what they charge today.

All of our arrangements are made for our trip to Patty's next week. We made reservations at the La Quinta Inn near the Seattle Airport for Sunday night and will leave our Jeep there at the hotel and take their shuttle on Monday morning to catch our flight at 6:30 AM. The charges for that are less than driving it to the airport and using off site parking and a parking shuttle. We also made arrangements to have our fifth wheel in storage while we are gone. Instead of moving it into the storage area here at the campground, they are allowing us to leave it on the existing site - for the same small storage fee of $25 for the week - until we return the following week. That is a huge advantage since now we are able to leave all our food in the refrigerator while we are gone as we will still be connected to the power at our site. We will stay another 5 days or so when we return from IL on the 7th of May before heading to Wyoming for the summer...