Every turn of the road in Mount Rainier National Park opens a new sight, a new angle, a new feature—so much, it’s almost an invitation to pass by anything you don’t see clearly from the road.
It would have been easy for me to miss Narada Falls; only a little of it is really visible as you follow the winding road to Paradise (yes, that’s the next major stop on the road up from Longmire!) if I hadn’t been warned by a family I met along another trail.
To really see the falls, you have to walk down this lovely path, which quickly turns into an equally-lovely but harder-to-walk path, headed down hill and over a series of rocks and steps. But when I got to the bottom, my griping stopped.
The falls are created by the Paradise River, falling over a steep cliff. If you follow the Paradise far enough upstream, you’ll find yourself at the foot of a glacier whose meltwater is its source.
The steep drop to the rocky bottom throws up a constant mist that generates its own rainbow most of the time. To see more, play the video below.
