Bald Eagle Falls

RATING - 24.6

VR - 1.8 (Sm)           HR - 7.0              SR - 12/20

TYPE OF APPROACH - Trail

DIFFICULTY - Easy

LOCATION - Curry Gap Trail

TYPE - Tiered

HEIGHT - 218'

WIDTH - 10'

DIRECTIONS - Drive south from Darrington along the Mountain Loop Highway. Turn right onto the North Fork Sauk Road and follow it for several miles.  Follow the sign for Sloan Creek Road at the fork in the road and then turn right at the next fork.  The trailhead is at the end of this road.  Follow the trail for 1.75 miles to where the falls can be seen from the trail.

The Curry Gap/Bald Mountain Trail starts out as one of the most boring trails ever.  For the first mile and a half, the trail follows an old roadbed, gradually but steadily climbing upwards with nothing to see but trees on both sides.  Beginning with Bottleneck Falls, however, the trail passes three small volume, but very pretty waterfalls in the next .7 miles.  These three waterfalls combined with the easy hike, make this a great family-friendly hike, particularly in the spring when the creeks have more water.

Bald Eagle Falls is both the tallest, and the highest volume of the three waterfalls along the trail, dropping a total of 218' down a cliff of horizontally layered bedrock.  The first tier drops 153' with a bottom tier of 64' in height.