Dry Falls Overlook Metal Print

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Dry Falls can be seen from the overlook at Dry Falls State Park.
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What is now Dry Falls just south of Coulee City in north central Washington is thought to have once been the largest waterfall in the world. During the last Ice Age, a large glacier dammed the Columbia River, creating Lake Columbia, draining south through what became Lower Grand Coulee and over Dry Falls. At the same time another glacial dam blocked the Clark Fork River near present day Sandpoint, Idaho creating what became known as Lake Missoula in northern Idaho and western Montana. This dam was breached several times releasing the waters of Lake Missoula, which raged across eastern Washington as a 900-foot wall of water sending the water rushing over Dry Falls and covering the Lower Grand Coulee Canyon as seen today.

Once the glaciers melted at the end of the Ice Age, the Columbia River returned to its original channel, flowing westerly to the Cascade Mountain Range and then southerly alo...

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