Alsea Falls is a

waterfall A waterfall is a point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops. Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf. Waterfalls can be formed in several wa ...

located in the

Central Oregon Coast Range The Central Oregon Coast Range is the middle section of the Oregon Coast Range, in the Pacific Coast Ranges physiographic region, and located in the west-central portion of the state of Oregon, United States roughly between the Salmon River and t ...

, 13 miles west of Monroe, in Benton County, in the

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. It is 30 feet fall and is part of the Alsea Falls

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and Recreation Site.

Location

Alsea Falls is located along a Bureau of Land Management Back Country Byway surrounded by Oldgrowth

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and

western redcedar ''Thuja plicata'' is an evergreen coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to western North America. Its common name is western redcedar (western red cedar in the UK), and it is also called Pacific redcedar, giant arborvitae, w ...

forests. The waters of the Alsea Falls are located downstream of the

South Fork Alsea River The South Fork Alsea River is a tributary of the Alsea River in the U.S. state of Oregon. It begins at northeast of Horton on the east side of the Central Oregon Coast Range and flows generally northwest to near Alsea. There it joins the North For ...

History

The name of the waterfall and the river the forms it may have stemmed from ''Alsi'', said to be a corruption of

Alsea The Alsea are a Native American tribe of Western Oregon. They are (since 1856), confederated with other Tribes on the Siletz Reservation, Oregon, and are members of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz. Their origin story says that the Yaquina, Als ...

for native people who lived near the mouth of the river

References

{{Authority control Waterfalls of Oregon Parks in Benton County, Oregon

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