Rainbow Falls

Figure 9. Rainbow Falls drops 100 feet in the cascade shown here. (Photograph by Dirk Frankenberg. More about the photograph)

With Figure 9 we reach our destination, the river and falls that are the most striking geographic feature of the gorge region. This is the Horsepasture River with its Rainbow Falls, which drops over 100 feet in the single cascade shown here. Two other smaller cascades lie upstream.

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