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Dry Falls is a 3.5-mile-long (5.6 km) scalloped precipice with four major alcoves, in central Washington scablands.This cataract complex is on the opposite side of the Upper Grand Coulee from the Columbia River, and at the head of the Lower Grand Coulee, northern end of Lenore Canyon. [1]
Sun Lakes-Dry Falls State Park (formerly, Sun Lakes State Park) is a public recreation area located at the foot of Dry Falls, three miles (4.8 km) west of Coulee City in Grant County, Washington. The state park covers 3,774 acres (1,527 ha) along Route 17 at the head of the Lower Grand Coulee .
Dry Falls in Eastern Washington has been named to the International Union of Geological Sciences “The First 100 Geological Heritage Sties” for its impact in understanding the Earth.
Grand Coulee is the longest and deepest of eastern Washington canyons. Its unique characteristics include a lower floor at the head of the channel than at its outlet and the widest and highest dry falls cliff in the middle. [6] It was created through the process of cataract recession, which included a cataract twice as high as its existing Dry ...
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The Deep Lake Paddle Route, in Sun Lakes-Dry Falls State Park, is an aquatic adventurer's paradise. Stretching 3.3 miles with a modest 13-foot elevation gain, this easy route boasts a 4.8-star ...
The Missoula Floods discharged into Lake Spokane, through the Grand Coulee, greatly enlarging it, passed over Dry Falls and then ponded in and inundated the Quincy Basin, covering over 1500 km 2 (585 mi 2) and creating the Ephrata Fan (a deposit of boulders, cobbles, and pebbles where the flood waters discharged into the basin).
Dry Falls Dam is a rockfaced earthfill type [4] dam in the U.S. state of Washington. Located in Grant County near Coulee City, it was built as part of the Bureau of Reclamation's Columbia Basin Project. Water from the Columbia River, impounded by Grand Coulee Dam, is pumped into Grand Coulee, a formerly