Lower Grand Coulee

Park Lake

There is a string of lakes "downstream" from Dry Falls. Each major lake corresponds roughly with one of the major locations of the falls during one of the flood periods.

Looking up Lower Grand Coulee towards Dry Falls, from Park Lake

Looking north towards Dry Falls (not visible from here).

Looking south, from Park Lake along Lower Grand Coulee

Looking south, from a rest area.

RT at Park Lake, with Coulee cliff behind

Coulee walls, which are crumbling as rock does - the cooling/heating cycles (intense here), and water freezing in the rock face, eventually causes part of the rock surface to split off, and you can see where it is building up, as the slightly reddish coloured slope below the top part of the cliff face.

Lenore Lake

Another chain in the series of lakes is Lenore Lake, where again the crumbling rock is visible, as is the interesting plateau on the far side.

Soap Lake (north of Ephrata), with Coulee cliffs and plateau

A wider angle view.

Soap Lake

The final lake in Lower Grand Coulee is Soap Lake. This is just about the end of the coulee, as the regular eastern Washington plains begin south of here.

Dry Falls

2001