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Guy W. Talbot State Park, Troutdale, OR

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Guy W. Talbot State Park

Quiet Columbia Gorge picnic park beside the Historic Columbia River Highway, with access to Latourell Falls.

Troutdale, OR

About Guy W. Talbot State Park

Also known as Latourell State Park, this Columbia Gorge site offers a calm spot for picnics and relaxing on a grassy slope shaded by conifers and broadleaf trees. A picnic shelter can be rented. A short walk beneath a 1914 bridge leads to the base of Lower Latourell Falls, a tall cascade over basalt columns. A moderately difficult loop trail climbs past several small bridges to Upper Latourell Falls, a two-tiered waterfall. The land was first given to the state by the Talbot family, who had used it as a summer home, and later parcels were added through gifts and purchases.

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