Chush Falls

Chush Falls
Location	Willamette National Forest
Coordinates	44°08′59″N 121°40′58″W / 44.14986°N 121.6827°W / 44.14986; -121.6827Coordinates: 44°08′59″N 121°40′58″W / 44.14986°N 121.6827°W / 44.14986; -121.6827
Elevation	4,967 ft (1,514 m)
Total height	68 ft (21 m)
Total width	80 ft (24 m)

Chush Falls, also known as Lower Squaw Creek Falls and Lower Whychus Falls, is a waterfall formed along Whychus Creek on the north skirt of North Sister, west side of the city of Bend in Deschutes County, Oregon.^[1] Access to Chush Falls is from Forest Service Road 16, south of Highway 242. The trail to the falls ends at the canyon rim overlooking the falls, but unmarked paths lead down to the base of the waterfall.^[1]

Chush is a Sahaptin word for water.^[2]

References

1 2 "Chush Falls - Deschutes County, Oregon". Northwest Waterfall Survey. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
↑ "Upper Chush Falls". Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). United States Geological Survey. November 28, 1980. Retrieved April 30, 2012.

Waterfalls of Oregon

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Eagle Creek (north to south)	Wauna Falls Metlako Falls Lower Punch Bowl Falls Punch Bowl Falls Loowit Falls Skoonichuk Falls Tenas Falls Wy'east Falls Grand Union Falls Tunnel Falls Twister Falls Sevenmile Falls

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Willamette Valley	Willamette Falls Silver Falls State Park Shellburg Falls Salt Creek Falls Proxy Falls
Southern Cascades	Mill Creek Falls Toketee Falls Watson Falls Yakso Falls
Central Oregon	Benham Falls Dillon Falls Lava Island Falls Pringle Falls Tumalo Falls Upper Chush Falls

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Chush Falls

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