- Yacolt Falls is a modest but fairly attractive little waterfall along Yacolt Creek about a quarter mile upstream from its confluence with the East Fork Lewis River. The falls spill approximately 25 feet in two steps, first dropping 15 feet over a broad ledge where an unnamed tributary stream joins on the right, then gathers and funnels over an additional 6-7 foot tier located beneath a unique rotating swinging footbridge spanning the creek. During the winter, the Parks Department locks the swinging bridge open so one can’t cross the creek - I’m assuming this is to prevent logs from smashing against it if they were flumed down the falls (though it seems to me that the creek isn’t nearly voluminous enough to carry logs large enough to damage a metal bridge).
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- Anoka County, Minnesota (Wikipedia)
Anoka County (/əˈnoʊkə/ ə-NOH-kə) is the fourth-most populous county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, its population was 363,887. The county seat and namesake of the county is the city of Anoka, which is derived from the Dakota word anoka meaning “on (or from) both sides”, referring to its location on both banks of the Rum River. The largest city in the county is Blaine, the tenth-largest city in Minnesota and the sixth-largest Twin Cities suburb.