Last week, I drove north to what might be the closest falls to the state's Canadian border, in a park located, improbably enough, in a suburban area of one of Washington's bigger cities, Bellingham. Although these may look like they're far up in the Cascades, they're really only a few miles off Interstate 5 on its way to the border crossing.
First,
Whatcom Falls itself.
A bit further upstream, you find this officially-unnamed fall, which I have decided to christen
Way-Too-Flippin'-Muddy Footpath Falls. ;-)
Beyond that,
Upper Whatcom Falls. It appears a former path down to these falls has washed out, and the only view is peering between trees on the main trail.
Returning to the main falls, you find a man-made spillway diverting part of Whatcom Creek. At this point during the spring melt, it was running at full force. First, from across the creek (where there was no clear shot without trees getting in the way)...
...and, then, from the top of the spillway itself.
Finally, a couple of shots of the Whatcom Creek gorge. I still find it hard to believe that these are only a few blocks from a Subway franchise.